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Iris Murdoch Quotes

Irish - Author | July 15, 1919 - February 8, 1999

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Equality Down Cry Everyone

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

People Evil Off Come Only Lies

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Serious Seriously Human Taken

The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.

Survive Comfort Will General Notion

I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same.

Woman Think You Place Nice Irish

I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped.

Anything Being Holy Made Sincerely

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Space People Up Planets Scream Some

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

Love Moving On Love Is Someone Out

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Future Present Better See Terrible

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Truth Truth Is Moral Brown Well

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Life Body Human Human Body Yearning

One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.

Marriage Get Anywhere Public

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