The Time of the Angels Quotes

“The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible. There are principalities and powers. Angels are the thoughts of God. Now he had been dissolved into his thoughts which are beyond our conception in their nature and their multiplicity and their power. God was at least the name of something which we thought was good. Now even the name has gone and the spiritual world is scattered. There is nothing any more to prevent the magnetism of many spirits.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“Never seen the sea! How could anyone not have seen the sea? Surely the sea must somehow belong to the happiness of every child.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“Things, things, they outlive us and go to scenes that we know nothing of.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“We are clay and nothing is real for us except the uncanny womb of Being into which we shall return.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“God lives and works in history. The outward mythology changes, the inward truth remains the same.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels

“To grow old is to know that not circumstances but consciousness makes the happy and the sad.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Time of the Angels