The Message to the Planet Quotes

“I don't think I can marry, I'm not fit for it, I'm not real enough. That's the trouble. I'm a puppet that's realised what's wrong with itself and it's horrible. I'm propped up somewhere all alone, watching the real people go past. I'm propped up crying in a corner.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Perhaps there was an intimacy which did not need words.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Your infatuation will end in tears.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I'll never be happy, how can you love me, I'm awful, I'm covered with spiders, I'm doomed.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I'm made for misery, misery, misery, I'm made to be destroyed!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“He was glad that he had expressed to her, however blunderingly, what he felt. He was glad that he had held her hand.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

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

“Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“She was not just a wild creature, she was a wounded creature.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“The unspoken words trembled in the air.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Your coldness has ruined my life. All right, you didn't mean it, all right I was a schoolgirl, but you could have been kinder to someone who said they loved you, you could have been gentle and grateful.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“She tasted for the first time honey-sweet and dangerous happiness: dangerous because, as she before long began to learn, precarious.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

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

“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

“I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“So, in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet, it seemed, could not end, the days went by.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“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

“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

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

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

“No! I can't leave him, I'm bound to him, I'm made of him, I am him!”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“He felt himself falling into a state, very common when he was younger, of being totally cut off from the society he was in.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I adore your jealousy, especially when it's so misplaced. I expect Shakespeare wrote a sonnet about that.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Girls don't want men to be quiet and gentle, I'm told. If you're not panting with impatient lust they think you're not interested.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“He was glad she had come; she was for him, as he for her, 'another place'.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“And this great love makes you both ruthless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet