What did Iris Murdoch mean by: Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues. Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ All our failures are ultimately failures in love. Author, September 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Failure, Love, Relationships, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Empathy, Grief, Understanding, 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
+ Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love. Author, August 13, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Jealousy, Self-love, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Destiny, Existence, Uncertainty, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Indifference, Morality, Passion, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Awareness, Pessimism, Preparation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Food is a profound subject and one, incidentally, about which no writer lies. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Food, Truth, Writing, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it. William Morris Designer · England
