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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
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Iris Murdoch
Age: 79 †
Born: 1919
Born: July 15
Died: 1999
Died: February 8
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Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought.
Iris Murdoch
There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.
Iris Murdoch
There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.
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
Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.
Iris Murdoch
Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.
Iris Murdoch
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.
Iris Murdoch
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
Iris Murdoch
there is a natural tribal hostility between the married and the unmarried. I cannot stand the shows so often quite instinctively put on by married people to insinuate that they are not only more fortunate but in some way more moral than you are.
Iris Murdoch
We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
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
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
Iris Murdoch
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
Iris Murdoch
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
