Top 193 Quotes & Sayings by Iris Murdoch - Page 4

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

A long marriage is very unifying, even if it's not ideal, and those old structures must be respected.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies.

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.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak.

confession ran in the family.

Trains induce such terrible anxiety. They image the possibility of total and irrevocable failure. They are also dirty, rackety, packed with strangers, an object lesson in the foul contingency of life: the talkative fellow-traveller, the possibility of children.

They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.