Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.
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
Vision
Clear
Hate
Love
Cloudy
Hatred
More quotes by Iris Murdoch
Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Iris Murdoch
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
youth is a marvelous garment
Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch
What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?
Iris Murdoch
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
Iris Murdoch
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.
Iris Murdoch
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness!
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
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and perhaps even ex nihilo creates spirit as sex, is comparatively rare in this inconvenient world.
Iris Murdoch
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
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
Iris Murdoch
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.
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
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Iris Murdoch