Iris Murdoch Quotes

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. - Iris Murdoch

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. - Iris Murdoch

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

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. - Iris Murdoch

We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. - Iris Murdoch

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. - Iris Murdoch

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. - Iris Murdoch

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