What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child’s despair. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Childhood, Despair, Misery, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Oh the piercing sadness of life in the midst of its ordinariness! Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Life, Sadness, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Cursed, Despair, Sleep, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
We defend ourselves by descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Defense, Description, Generalization, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
being homosexual doesn’t determine a man’s whole character any more than being heterosexual does. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Equality, Identity, Sexuality, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling. Author, June 19, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Discomfort, Innovation, Inspiration, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ evil soon makes tools out of those who don’t hate it. Author, July 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Deception, Hatred, Manipulation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Every artist is an unhappy lover. Author, October 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Creativity, Emotion, Passion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection. Read explanation Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
