Iris Murdoch Quotes & Quotations

Iris Murdoch Quotes

» A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the fatade of his appearance.

» Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

» Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

» Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.

» Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

» The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

» A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

» But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

» Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonizing preoccupation with self.

» Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

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