Iris Murdoch Quotes - Page 2

I'm the absolute queen bee of unrequited love.

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

... male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--''Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

Jealousy is perhaps the most involuntary of all strong emotions. It steals consciousness, it lies deeper than thought. It is always there, like a blackness in the eye, it discolours the world.

It is necessary to write, that much is clear, and to write in a way quite unlike any way which I have employed before.