Quote

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

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
Church
Like
Hallowed
Churches
Meeting
Meetings
Places
Universal
Mankind

More quotes by Iris Murdoch

Image
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.
Iris Murdoch
Image
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
Iris Murdoch
Image
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch
Image
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Every artist is an unhappy lover.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.
Iris Murdoch
Image
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
Image
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch
Image
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch
Image
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.
Iris Murdoch
Image
A letter is a barrier, a reprieve, a charm against the world, an almost infallible method of acting at a distance.
Iris Murdoch
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved
Iris Murdoch
Image
It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Dogs are very different from cats in that they can be images of human virtue. They are like us.
Iris Murdoch
Image
evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.
Iris Murdoch
Image
Socrates wrote nothing. Christ wrote nothing.
Iris Murdoch
Image
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch