What did Iris Murdoch mean by: We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK Copy
+ Love can’t always do work. Sometimes it just has to look into the darkness. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Darkness, Love, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Another person’s illness is often harder to bear than one’s own. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Harder, Illness, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Moral, Values, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Caves, Darkness, Hate, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ It’s easier to sell junk when you’re known than works of genius when you’re unknown. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Easier, Genius, Junk, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ Every artist is an unhappy lover. Feraz Zeid, October 9, 2023December 26, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Artist, Philosophical, Unhappy, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Feraz Zeid, December 23, 2023January 10, 2024, Iris Murdoch, Happiness, Marriage, Relationships, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
+ A death is the most terrible of facts. Feraz Zeid, August 5, 2023December 12, 2023, Iris Murdoch, Death, Fact, Terrible, 0 - Iris Murdoch Novelist · UK
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Children have neither past nor future;they enjoy the present, which very few of us do. - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Days, months, years fly away, and irrecoverably sink in the abyss of time. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every hour in itself, as it respects us in particular, is the only one we can call our own. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
