The Message To The Planet Quotes (124 quotes)

“I'm not young. I've never had any youth.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: aged, burdens, iris-murdoch, old-soul, sad, the-message-to-the-planet, youth

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“You can't magic yourself out of the situation, you've got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: endurance, grim, iris-murdoch, magic, the-message-to-the-planet, trapped

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“Forgive me for not being able to be with you.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: breakup, dear-john-letter, iris-murdoch, sad, the-message-to-the-planet

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“He did not touch her but enjoyed the particular intimate pain of the tension between them.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: desire, intimate, iris-murdoch, pain, tension, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: fate, iris-murdoch, love, misfortune, the-message-to-the-planet, toxic-relationships

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“But I can't do anything for him and he can't do anything for me. We must wail in our own corners.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: alienated, comfortless, grief, iris-murdoch, isolated, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Well, you won't abandon me, will you."

"Don't be silly, Ludens, you are buckled to my heart.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: declaration-of-love, dialogue, friendship, heart, iris-murdoch, love, lovely, metaphor, the-message-to-the-planet

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“He looked so sad. I never saw him look sad before, he was always so superior, everywhere the king. You once called him a god from elsewhere who had lost his way.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: dethroned, god, humbled, iris-murdoch, king, otherworldly, sad, superior, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Perhaps he has realised now that he's trapped here and has to suffer with us and become mortal and die.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: fall-from-grace, iris-murdoch, mortal, the-message-to-the-planet, trapped

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“But suicides are mysterious, and one must respect their mystery.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: death, iris-murdoch, mystery, privacy, reverence, suicide, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Magic besieges the religious life and men yearn to speak the language of angels.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: angels, iris-murdoch, magic, religion, the-message-to-the-planet

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“She must not be tempted by truthfulness, she must play the game out to the end.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: game, iris-murdoch, lies, the-message-to-the-planet, truth

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“Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: ignorance-is-bliss, iris-murdoch, knowledge, the-message-to-the-planet, to-die-for

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“The dread enactment of the dream had turned into a waking horror.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: dream, horror, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“There is no light where I am. If any comes it is not enlightenment but lightning.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: darkness, enlightenment, iris-murdoch, light, the-message-to-the-planet

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“. . . it's a centuries-old look, there's something suspicious in it, intense, withdrawn, even frightened.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: eternal, immortal, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“What is God anyway?"

"A dark place —”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: dark, dialogue, god, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“. . . the huge machine of her misery.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: iris-murdoch, misery, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Yes, I've endured so much, and you seem to think this means I will endure anything. It does not.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: endurance, iris-murdoch, limits, suffering, the-message-to-the-planet

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“I can't believe in your other attachment.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: attachment, disbelief, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“Human life is short, we don't exist all that much. A pale brief flicker in the dark.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: iris-murdoch, life, metaphor, mortality, the-message-to-the-planet

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“How little thought he had given to her since, how little imagination of her feelings — and after the great honour which she had done him. She had offered him herself and said she loved him.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: declaration-of-love, inconsiderate, iris-murdoch, rejection, the-message-to-the-planet, thoughtless, unrequited-love

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“Yes, and I'm ready to wade through blood for him, but there is no blood, only a false sickly slime — I can't live in fogs and falsehoods, I must live in the open, I must find my way out, I must find someone else, and I have found someone else.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: blood, devotion, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“He was conscious of his body as a heavy cold horrible container. He had the feeling, coming to him as the memory of a dream, of being a prisoner waiting to be tortured. The extremity of pain was yet to come. And even now he was denied to comfort of self-pitying misery and warm tears.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: anguish, inner-turmoil, iris-murdoch, suffering, the-message-to-the-planet, trapped

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“I can't quite believe he has actually left this scene, left our lives, wherein he was always so significant!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: absence, death, disbelief, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“How we tracked him, you most of all of course, and lost him and found him.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: iris-murdoch, lost-and-found, the-message-to-the-planet

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“I must stay with you, stay near you, do your will, or die.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: devotion, iris-murdoch, relationships, the-message-to-the-planet

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“On this diet of expectation, he had fairly frenzied himself by the time he arrived.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: anticipation, arrival, expectation, frenzy, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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“He thought, this is hell, not being able to live with oneself.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: hell, inner-turmoil, iris-murdoch, mental-illness, the-message-to-the-planet

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“In a way it does not matter where I am. In another way where I am is fated.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

tags: contradictory, fated, iris-murdoch, the-message-to-the-planet

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