Iris Murdoch Quotes - Page 8

My heart was beating like an army on the march.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

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.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

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

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.