Quotes by : Iris Murdoch

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket....

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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

To anyone who will take the trouble to become attached to her she will immediately give a devoted, generous,....

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in....

However life, unlike art, has an irritating way of bumping and limping on, undoing conversions, casting....

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured....

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

Amo amas amat amamus amatis amant amavi amavisti amavit amavimus amavistis amaverunt amavero amaveris....

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they....