Iris Murdoch

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“The chief requirement of the good life... is to live without any image of oneself.”
— The Bell (1958), ch. 9; 2001, p. 119.
“Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. To be damned is for one's ordinary everyday mode of consciousness to be unremitting agonising preoccupation with self.”
— The Nice and the Good (1968), ch. 22.
“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
— The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.
“The cry of equality pulls everyone down.”
— Quoted in The Observer September 13, 1987.
“A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.”
— Quoted in The Times (6 July 1989).
“We know that the real lesson to be taught is that the human person is precious and unique; but we seem unable to set it forth except in terms of ideology and abstraction.”
— Ch. 10, p. 148 (the concluding sentence of the book)

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