List of Iris Murdoch Quotes

There Is Nothing Like The Bootless Solitude Of Those Who Are Caged Together.

To Be A Complete Victim May Be Another Source Of Power.

Daytime Sleep Is A Cursed Slumber From Which One Wakes In Despair.

Actors Are Cave Dwellers In A Rich Darkness Which They Love And Hate.

I See Myself As Rhoda, Not Mary Tyler Moore.

To Be Understood Is Not A Human Right. Even To Understand Oneself Is Not A Human Right.

Confession Ran In The Family.

A Long Marriage Is Very Unifying, Even If It's Not Ideal, And Those Old Structures Must Be Respected.

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!

The Theatre Is A Tragic Place, Full Of Endings And Partings And Heartbreak.

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.

They Are Universal Places, Like Churches, Hallowed Meeting Places Of All Mankind.