The best Quotes by Iris Murdoch

The best Quotes by Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher.

Anything that consoles is fake.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

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Even a short stay in Dublin is like walking into literary history, accompanied by music.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

Colin Farrell

I'm just a kid that defied the odds. I'm just a kid that ignored the doubt. I'm just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I'm going to continue to go all the way.

Conor McGregor

When I die, Dublin will be written in my heart.

James Joyce

Dublin is one of my favourite cities. It's an absolutely amazing place.

Tom Holland

I've only been to Dublin once, and I had a great time. I got completely soaked because it was rainy.

Jodie Foster

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Dublin - which is kinda the same.

You can leave Dublin, but it will never leave you.

Well, there's one thing: they can't order me to stop dreaming.

Cinderella in Cinderella

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Dreaming Comforting

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister?

Alice Walker

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Comforting Sisters

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

Roald Dahl in Matilda

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Books Comforting Reading

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Revelation - 7, 17

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God Crying & Tears Comforting

He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.

Revelation - 21, 4

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Comforting Day of the Dead

Philosophy is basically thinking about thinking. Which sounds like a waste of time, because it is.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

"Put more than one philosopher together and you'll birth an argument," Erlin commented. "A truism I've observed the world over. In fact, I once saw one argue with himself, it got quite violent in the end."

Anthony Ryan in Raven's Shadow - 3: Queen of Fire

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Aristotle Plato Truth Philosophy

Philosophy is dead. Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

Stephen Hawking - May 2011

Philosophy Science

If you're concious, you exist. Philosophy Science 101 motherf*ckers.

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Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Isaac Newton

Truth Philosophy

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts. Their reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Itachi Uchiha in Naruto

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I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

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Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure it was real? What if you were unable to awake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world, and the real world?

Morpheus in The Matrix

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Dreaming Reality

That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.

Ernest Cline in Ready Player One

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Reality is the stillness buried deep beneath the illusion.

Raiden Shogun in Genshin Impact

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Flannery O'Connor

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Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

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