“ I've felt as if I didn't exist, as if I were invisible, miles away from the world, miles away. You can't imagine how much alone I've been all my life. Iris Murdoch
“ Sometimes I felt I would die by wishing it when I went to sleep but I always woke up again and found I was still there. Every morning finding I'm still me, that's hell.Well, get out of hell then! The… Iris Murdoch
“ As I lay there, listening to the soft slap of the sea, and thinking these sad and strange thoughts, more and more and more stars had gathered, obliterating the separateness of the Milky Way and fillin… Iris Murdoch
“ And I thought, rolling my head to and fro between my hands in anguish, oh if only it could have worked somehow for us two. Iris Murdoch
“ As it is I crawl on everyday towards the tomb. When I wake in the morning I think first of death, do you? Iris Murdoch
“ We are all potentially demons to each other, but some close relationships are saved from this fate. Iris Murdoch
“ Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's. Iris Murdoch
“ How sad for those who cannot enjoy what are after all prime pleasures of daily life, and perhaps for some the only ones, eating and drinking. Iris Murdoch
“ Of course we live in dreams and by dreams, and even in a disciplined spiritual life, in some ways especially there, it is hard to distinguish dream from reality. In ordinary human affairs humble commo… Iris Murdoch
