| There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for granted relationship. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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| Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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| All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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| Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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| We can only learn to love by loving. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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| People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. |
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- Iris Murdoch |
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