Iris Murdoch Quotes

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
Iris Murdoch

Marriage, Selfish, Person

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Someone, Matter

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.
Iris Murdoch

Women, Two, Quiet

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Real, Difficult

We can only learn to love by loving.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Learn, Loving

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
Iris Murdoch

Nice, Important, Woman

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris Murdoch

Future, Present, Shall

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
Iris Murdoch

Love, Eyes, Short

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
Iris Murdoch

Equality, Down, Everyone

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
Iris Murdoch

Saying, Between, Shoes

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
Iris Murdoch

Passion, Confused, Moral

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris Murdoch

Hear, Perhaps, Pick

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
Iris Murdoch

Men, Thinking, Philosophy

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

Nature, Time, Joy

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Happiness, Busy, Self

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
Iris Murdoch

Life, Human, Another

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch

Life, Great, Live

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Iris Murdoch

Said, Emotions, Literature

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
Iris Murdoch

Art, Human, Soul

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.
Iris Murdoch

Mary, Moore, Tyler

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
Iris Murdoch

Marriage, Public, Anywhere

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

Love, Change, Marriage

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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Bad, Important, Less

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
Iris Murdoch

Art, Struggle, Virtuous

Anything that consoles is fake.
Iris Murdoch

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Author

Born: July 15, 1919

Died: February 8, 1999

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