Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self. – Iris Murdoch
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. – Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. – Iris Murdoch
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all. – Iris Murdoch