Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Taken
Human
Humans
Seriousness
Affairs
Affair
Seriously
Serious
Literature
More quotes by Iris Murdoch
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch
All our failures are ultimately failures in love.
Iris Murdoch
The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.
Iris Murdoch
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
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
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
Most real relationships are involuntary.
Iris Murdoch
You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.
Iris Murdoch
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch
Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.
Iris Murdoch
How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.
Iris Murdoch
Art and morality are, with certain provisos…one. Their essence is the same. The essence of both of them is love. Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality.
Iris Murdoch
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
Iris Murdoch
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
Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect.
Iris Murdoch
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.
Iris Murdoch
One should go easy on smashing other people's lies. Better to concentrate on one's own.
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
