Iris Murdoch Quote

I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow—I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go craw...

Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.

Then the front doorbell (already too long delayed by my rambling narrative) rang.

It might be most dramatically effective to begin the tale at the moment when Arnold Baffin rang me up and said, Bradley, could you come round here please, I think I have just killed my wife.

How could it be that I had actually kissed her cheek without enveloping her, without becoming her? How could I at that moment have refrained from kneeling at her feet and howling?

I felt so ashamed with them because everything in their life was going so well and they were so sort of successful. I couldn't talk about what I wanted with them and they were always in a hurry.

I know people can be awful dooms for each other.

She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.

Only take someone's hand in a certain way, even look into their eyes in a certain way, and the world is changed forever.

I struggled with a nebulous work which seemed now a , now a vast novel, wherein a hero not unlike myself pursued, amid ghostly incidents, a series of reflections about life and art.