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Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

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 Quotes

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.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Art Irish Author

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

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

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

Irish Author Men

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. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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.

`We aren't getting anywhere. You know that as well as I do.' `One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.' - Iris Murdoch Quotes

`We aren't getting anywhere. You know that as well as I do.' `One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.'

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Art Irish Author

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story

Love

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

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

Irish Author Joy

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

Home

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Comfort Irish Author

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Eyes Irish Author

We can only learn to love by loving. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

We can only learn to love by loving.

Editor's Pick inspirational Irish Author Learning Love Quote of the Day

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 Quotes

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

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Consciousness Irish Author

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Irish Author Luck

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.

Irish Author Love

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Charm Irish Author

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing - Iris Murdoch Quotes

We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Action Italian Proverbs

Only lies and evil come from letting people off. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

Evil Irish Author

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Indifference Irish Author

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

Emotions Irish Author

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Irish Author People

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

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

Irish Irish Author

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Bereavement Darkness

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Irish Author Philosophy

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats - Iris Murdoch Quotes

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats

Life

The cry of equality pulls everyone down. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Equality Irish Author

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Future Irish Author

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Truth

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Irish Author Temperament

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

Irish Author Life

Anything that consoles is fake. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Anything that consoles is fake.

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Irish Author Love

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Every man needs two women: a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph.

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. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

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.

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic. - Iris Murdoch Quotes

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

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