Iris Murdoch Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

  Iris Murdoch

  Desire, Doe, Needs

  Iris Murdoch (1961). “Under the Net: A Novel”

• Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

  Iris Murdoch

  Hurt, Revenge, Vanity

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “The Philosopher's Pupil”, p.81, Random House

• ... he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls.

  Iris Murdoch

  Home, Sick, People

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “The Bell”, p.74, Penguin

• Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

  Iris Murdoch

  Effort, Soul, Desire

  Iris Murdoch (1994). “Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals”, p.159, Penguin

• any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.

  Iris Murdoch

  Book, Fire, Anxiety

  Iris Murdoch (2003). “From a Tiny Corner in the House of Fiction: Conversations with Iris Murdoch”, p.127, Univ of South Carolina Press

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