Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch
Dame Jean Iris Murdoch DBEwas an Irish novelist and philosopher, best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net, was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1987, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Her books include The Bell, A Severed Head, The Red and the Green,...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 July 1919
CountryIreland
Iris Murdoch quotes about
It is not enough that I succeed, everyone else must fail.
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.
In a happy marriage there is a continuous dense magnetic sense of communication.
for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.
The bereaved cannot communicate with the unbereaved.
We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.