We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. Iris Murdoch Irish Author More Iris Murdoch Quotes 0