Verne Troyer Quotes


In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. Iris Murdoch Marriage 116
Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved. Iris Murdoch Grief 106
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch Nature 104
Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! Iris Murdoch Philosophy 98
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream. Iris Murdoch Continuous 94
Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions. Iris Murdoch Books 90
We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is. Iris Murdoch Present 89
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance. Iris Murdoch Marriage 86
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch Realization 85
No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base. Iris Murdoch Love 83
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch Cute 80
Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end. Iris Murdoch Goodness 80
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch Love 76
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge. Iris Murdoch Vanity 74
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 Change 74
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. Iris Murdoch Comfort 72
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe. Iris Murdoch Survival 71
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. Iris Murdoch Criticism 67
I daresay anything can be made holy by being sincerely worshipped. Iris Murdoch Religion 65
We can only learn to love by loving. Iris Murdoch Learn 59
Only lies and evil come from letting people off. Iris Murdoch Come 57
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Iris Murdoch Reason 54
The cry of equality pulls everyone down. Iris Murdoch Equality 52
All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous. Iris Murdoch Virtue 51
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch People 48
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. Iris Murdoch Fantasy 46
Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. Iris Murdoch Humanity 45
Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. Iris Murdoch Difficult 43
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says youre important and nice but you take second place all the time. Iris Murdoch Feminism 39
Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes. Iris Murdoch Enlightening 34
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations. Iris Murdoch Reading 32
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods. Iris Murdoch Art 31
As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing we are all too often aware of our fragitlity. Iris Murdoch Mortality 30
Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port. Iris Murdoch Karma 25

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