Author of quotes: Iris Murdoch. Page 2

... No one can understand someone else's marriage.

Marriage is a secret matter. Whoever lifts this veil without asking risks incurring the revenge of the deity in the most unforeseen way. And it is possible that from now on and for sure such a sacrilege will be pursued by some, unexpectedly opened to him, a terrible picture, some obscene nightmare.

Do not get too close to what you guess other people's suffering.

Even a dog's tooth radiates light to those who sincerely worship it.

... You lie down, sometimes, at night without sleep and only that and you are comforted that you imagine in all the details how now you will go down to the kitchen, find an axe and fuck it on the head, so that only bloody pudding will remain on the pillow! Oh, Charles, what do you know about family joys.

... The one of the spouses who, even if for no good, considers himself guilty, is doomed to become a victim and can no longer hold his moral positions. This leads to mutual intimidation.

It is sad to live for those who cannot enjoy the main, and for some, perhaps, the only joys of everyday life - food and drink.

... The past and the present are so inseparable, just not united, as if time is an artificial dismemberment of material, which tends to become compact and homogeneous, heavy and very small, like some celestial bodies that science has informed us about.

Family life sometimes develops in such a way that, even when happiness ends, there remains a spiritual contentment that you do not want to change for anything else. Only very rarely do husband and wife find more and more joy in each other over the years and continue to radiate happiness.

... Hatred is capable of mortifying, it has its own magic.

Stars are always more famous than those who create them.

There are so many different "if only ..." in everyone's life.

What a strange gambling our existence is! We decide to do the wrong thing, and now both roads have parted ways and can lead us either to hell or to heaven. Only in hindsight do you realize how big and how terrible the difference is.

When something from the past breaks out alive and whole, one involuntarily imagines that it blows the flame of hell.