Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. Iris Murdoch More Quotes by Iris Murdoch More Quotes From Iris Murdoch Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion of the soul in its search for Good, the force that joins us to Good and joins us to the world through Good. Its existence is the unmistakable sign that we are spiritual creatures, attracted by excellence and made for the Good. It is a reflection of the warmth and light of the sun. Iris Murdoch spirituallovelife Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch lovelifefall Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere. Iris Murdoch tramsmarriage So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges that spirit back into the void from which it came. Iris Murdoch voidfinalsfaces People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. Iris Murdoch passioncharacterthinking Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch goodnessliteraturematter Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. Iris Murdoch jealousjealousysin Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. Iris Murdoch understandingkindphilosophy Anything that consoles is fake. Iris Murdoch consolefakefake-people The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved. Iris Murdoch communicate I am not famous for anything in particular. I am just famous. Iris Murdoch particular Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. Iris Murdoch despairadultschildren What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school? Iris Murdoch taughtimagineschool I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better. Iris Murdoch failurebookyears confession ran in the family. Iris Murdoch ranconfession We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom Iris Murdoch prisonercuresnames to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. Iris Murdoch oneselfunderstoodhumans The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. Iris Murdoch survivalliteraturecomfort 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 importantreadingwriting I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. Iris Murdoch maryliterature
