Iris Murdoch Quotes
Most popular Iris Murdoch Quotes
![Youth is a marvelous garment. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/03/42903A-youth-is-a-marvelous-garment-iris-murdoch.png)
Youth is a marvelous garment.
![The cry of equality pulls everyone down. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/64/50764A-the-cry-of-equality-pulls-everyone-down-iris-murdoch.png)
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
![Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/35/27335A-every-book-is-the-wreck-of-perfect-idea-iris-murdoch.png)
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
![Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/33/30733A-remember-that-all-our-failures-are-ultimately-failures-love-iris-murdoch.png)
Remember that all our failures are ultimately failures in love.
![Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/66/33366A-another-persons-illness-is-often-harder-bear-than-ones-own-iris-murdoch.png)
Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.
![I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/72/18772A-i-daresay-anything-can-be-made-holy-by-being-sincerely-iris-murdoch.png)
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.
![All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/44/26444A-all-art-is-the-struggle-to-be-particular-sort-way-iris-murdoch.png)
All art is the struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
![Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/16/36216A-bereavement-is-a-darkness-impenetrable-to-imagination-unbereaved-iris-murdoch.png)
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.
![Mankind's creative struggle, our search for wisdom and truth, is a love story. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/82/5782A-mankinds-creative-struggle-our-search-for-wisdom-truth-is-love-iris-murdoch.png)
Mankind's creative struggle, our search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
![One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/27/35527A-one-doesnt-have-to-get-anywhere-marriage-its-not-public-iris-murdoch.png)
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
![In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/01/37301A-in-philosophy-if-you-arent-moving-at-snails-pace-you-iris-murdoch.png)
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.
![Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/68/26568A-every-artist-is-an-unhappy-lover-unhappy-lovers-want-tell-iris-murdoch.png)
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
![To be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/87/41487A-to-be-understood-is-not-a-human-right-even-understand-iris-murdoch.png)
To be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
![We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/10/10710A-we-live-in-a-fantasy-world-world-illusion-great-task-iris-murdoch.png)
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
![Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/43/26443A-art-is-the-final-cunning-of-human-soul-which-would-iris-murdoch.png)
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
![There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/33/28333A-there-is-no-substitute-for-the-comfort-supplied-by-utterly-iris-murdoch.png)
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
![They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind, and each one is different. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/15/26915A-they-are-universal-places-like-churches-hallowed-meeting-places-all-iris-murdoch.png)
They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind, and each one is different.
![As the world runs, evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it. Hatred [of evil] is our best protection. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/01/30401A-as-the-world-runs-evil-soon-makes-tools-out-those-iris-murdoch.png)
As the world runs, evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it. Hatred [of evil] is our best protection.
![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 quote.](/img/q/22/15022A-people-from-a-planet-without-flowers-would-think-we-must-iris-murdoch.png)
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
![Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/20/34520A-remember-that-the-secret-of-all-learning-is-patience-that-iris-murdoch.png)
Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
![Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. It is at once one of the ugliest and one of the most pardonable. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/69/33969A-jealousy-is-the-most-dreadfully-involuntary-all-sins-it-is-iris-murdoch.png)
Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. It is at once one of the ugliest and one of the most pardonable.
![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 quote.](/img/q/30/17330A-the-absolute-yearning-of-one-human-body-another-particular-body-iris-murdoch.png)
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
![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 even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. - Iris Murdoch quote.](/img/q/00/41600A-the-sin-of-pride-may-be-small-or-great-thing-iris-murdoch.png)
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 even murderous obsession. Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.