Bruno's Dream Quotes

“Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream

“Uno ama lo que se parece a uno mismo. Todos los dioses son privados”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream

“You’ve got such nice hair, it seems a pity to dye it blue.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“If I see her she may kill hope.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“But, and especially with Linda’s help, he had decided that, like most other people, he was not made for reality.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“He could feel the pain of her heart beating strongly against his own.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Perhaps the crime was that of letting himself be loved so much more than he loved.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Brooding about the past is so often fantasy of how one might have won and resentment that one didn’t. It is that resentment which one so often mistakes for repentance”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“But thinking about wickedness usually just comforts.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Where’s your house?’ ‘Kempsford Gardens, by West Brompton tube station.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“How absolute the knave is!”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“She has somehow missed the bus of life.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“If only he could be loved by somebody new.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“but it was love in an inferno: that terrible relentless withholding of forgiveness.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Sometimes he would have liked to pray, but what is prayer if there is nobody there?”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“All the effort which he had put into making himself seemed vanity now that there were no more purposes”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“It’s all a dream, he thought, one goes through life in a dream, it’s all too hard.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“BRUNO WAS WAKING up. The room seemed to be dark. He held his breath, testing the quality of the darkness, wondering if it was night or day, morning or afternoon. If it was night that was bad and might be terrible. Afternoon could be terrible too if he woke up too early. The drama of sleeping and waking had become preoccupying and fearful now that consciousness itself could be so heavy a burden. One had to be cunning. He never let himself doze in the mornings for fear of not being able to fall asleep after lunch. The television had been banished with its false sadnesses and its images of war. Perhaps he had nodded off over his book. He had had that dream again, about Janie and Maureen and the hatpin. He felt about him and began to push himself up a little on his pillows, his stockinged feet scrabbling inside the metal cage which lifted the weight of the blankets off them. Tight bed clothes are a major cause of bad feet. Not that Bruno’s feet minded much at this stage.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream

“If only one could believe that death was waking up.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“I have lived for nearly ninety years and I know nothing.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“He must play the game of survival until the very end.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“He saw moving pictures. It was not quite like remembering.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Time had never been visible to him before.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“I have never been more sane, coldly sane, self-interestedly sane. I am a woman.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“His peace depends on seeing me as unattainable, as an angel. It will hurt terribly when it turns out that I am only a woman after all.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Misery and drink made him a sound sleeper.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“Every manjack craving for love, and how rarely it all worked out.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel

“If only there were not these vain ghostly hopes, these sudden inane shadows of possibilities, these unfulfilled conditionals of hopeless desire.”
― Iris Murdoch, Bruno's Dream: A Novel