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
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.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.
to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
confession ran in the family.
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
A middling talent makes for a more serene life.
We re all muddlers. The thing is to see is when one's got to stop muddling.