until I have been able to bury my head so deep in dear London that I can forget that I have ever been away I am inconsolable. Iris Murdoch More Quotes by Iris Murdoch More Quotes From Iris Murdoch Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. Iris Murdoch slumber despair sleep We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Iris Murdoch description world Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines. Iris Murdoch roles play men Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved Iris Murdoch saying-goodbye grief love any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind. Iris Murdoch anxiety fire book My heart was beating like an army on the march. Iris Murdoch march army heart Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you. Iris Murdoch be-you interest should Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. Iris Murdoch important reading thinking Every persisting marriage is based on fear', said Peregrine. 'Fear is fundamental, you dig down in human nature and what's at the bottom? Mean spiteful cruel self-regarding fear, whether it makes you to put the foot in it or whether it makes you to cower. Iris Murdoch self feet mean Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self. Iris Murdoch Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. Iris Murdoch self matter busy happiness
