Quote

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

Iris Murdoch

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
Author
Biographer
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Professor
Prosaist
Writer
Dublin city
Jean Iris Murdoch
Dame Iris Murdoch
Live
Closer
Constantly
Aware
Coming
State
Lives
Brink
Often
Precarious
States
Void

More quotes by Iris Murdoch

Image
Most real relationships are involuntary.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Iris Murdoch
Image
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
Image
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Freedom is not choosing that is merely the move that we make when all is already lost. Freedom is knowing and understanding and respecting things quite other than ourselves.
Iris Murdoch
Image
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
Image
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats, and if some of these can be inexpensive and quickly procured so much the better.
Iris Murdoch
Image
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.
Iris Murdoch
Image
for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
Iris Murdoch
Image
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.
Iris Murdoch
Image
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch
Image
youth is a marvelous garment
Iris Murdoch
Image
There is a gulf fixed between those who can sleep and those who cannot. It is one of the greatest divisions of the human race.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Art is not cozy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch