Iris Murdoch Quotes about Life

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

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

Iris Murdoch

Life, Reality, Tasks

In 'The Times' 15 April 1983 'Profile'

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, Relationship, Marriage

Iris Murdoch (2003). “The Black Prince”, p.273, Penguin

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

Love, Life, Spiritual

Iris Murdoch (2013). “The Sovereignty of Good”, p.100, Routledge

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

Life, Hurt, Pride