Iris Murdoch

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#humor

Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#español #eternidad #iris-murdoch #vida-y-muerte #dreams

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship... ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#relationship

This sort of quiet gazing, which was like a feeding of the heart... ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#love

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

— Iris Murdoch

#blindness #love-hurts #radar #love

(I think I fell in love with you when you were shouting at Romeo and Juliet, 'Don't touch each other!') ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#romeo-and-juliet #love

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#death #life #religion #death

What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#shouting #silence #soul #anger

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#violence #men

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#murder #unrequited-love #women #love