"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 ...












Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
More Iris Murdoch quotes
"We can only learn to love by loving.
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
"Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
"Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
"I know how much you grieve over those who are under your care: those you try to help and fail, those you cannot help. Have faith in God and remember t...
"Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
"But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.