Iris Murdoch Quotes (11+)

The sea is all-embracing and terrible.

Imperfect love must not be rejected but made perfect. The way is always forward.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. You see the world with new eyes.

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

Happiness is a matter of ordinary everyday consciousness being busy and unconcerned with self.

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

Anything That Consoles Is Fake.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until amazed at luck.

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

We can only learn to love by loving.