Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. -Iris Murdoch Happiness
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -Iris Murdoch Great
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. -Iris Murdoch Change
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. -Iris Murdoch Marriage
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. -Iris Murdoch Art
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -Iris Murdoch Truth
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. -Iris Murdoch Movingon
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. -Iris Murdoch Life
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. -Iris Murdoch Marriage
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. -Iris Murdoch Relationship
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 Nature
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. -Iris Murdoch Space
