Nuns and Soldiers Quotes

“As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.”
― Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers

“We are all the judges and the judged, victims of the casual malice and fantasy of others, and ready sources of fantasy and malice in our turn. And if we are sometimes accused of sins of which we are innocent, are there not also other sins of which we are guilty and of which the world knows nothing?”
― Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers

“Death drives away what rules everywhere else, the aesthetic.”
― Iris Murdoch, Nuns and Soldiers