Jean Iris Murdoch Quotes (5 Quotes)

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish graceful, mysterious, desirable and free and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.