Iris Murdoch Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“We can only learn to love by loving.”

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

“Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.”

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

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

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

“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.”

“Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.”

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