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

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

“He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
― 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

“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

“I'm not young. I've never had any youth.”
― 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

“Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.”
― 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

“The agony was of suddenly feeling herself so separate and so secret.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“I need daylight. But I wander in the dark.”
― 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

“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

“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

“You're as wonderful as I expected, and I worship you for it.”
― 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

“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

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

“This is an age of demons and amoral angels and all sorts of deep fears, like the first centuries of the Christian era, it's an age of extreme solutions.”
― 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

“And this great love makes you both ruthless.”
― 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