Iris Murdoch (1919-1999) English Novelist, Philosopher
These Iris Murdoch quotes and sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.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
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. - Iris Murdoch
Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness. - Iris Murdoch
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. - Iris Murdoch
We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central. - Iris Murdoch
Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. - Iris Murdoch
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. - Iris Murdoch