Quotes by : Iris Murdoch

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to....

Marian was suddenly overcome by an appalling crippling panic. She was very frightened at the idea of....

The past and the present are after all so close, so almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing....

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

I am in favour of illusion, not alienation... Drama must create a factitious spell-binding present moment....

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They....

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.

Violence is born of the desire to escape oneself.

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can....