What did Iris Murdoch mean by: We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
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
There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Confinement, Connection, Isolation, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Change, Enlightenment, Perspective, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ The very madness of the scheme protects it. Author, August 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Deception, Risk, Security, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Deprivation, Happiness, Innocence, 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
+ A death is the most terrible of facts. Author, August 5, 2023January 2, 2025, Iris Murdoch, Fear, Grief, Mortality, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
Not to have been born is undoubtedly best, but sound sleep is second best. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Existence, Preference, Sleep, 0 Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet. 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
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives. Ludwig van Beethoven Composer · Germany
There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them. Read explanation Ludwig von Mises Economist · Austria
