What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someoneβs company you love them.
Iris MurdochRead
Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects on the struggles and uncertainties that accompany the journey of life.
Iris Murdoch's quote suggests that life is a pilgrimage fraught with challenges, often represented metaphorically as 'demons.' The existential wonder about what lies ahead captures the human experience of seeking meaning and understanding amidst trials and uncertainties.
Themes
LifePilgrimageStrugglesUncertaintyJourney
In practice
Example use cases
This quote would be perfect for a motivational speech about overcoming life's challenges.
More from Iris Murdoch
All quotes βThe bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Iris MurdochRead
Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.
Iris MurdochRead
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris MurdochRead
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris MurdochRead
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
Iris MurdochRead
Similar quotes
Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.
John LennonRead
Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
Khaled HosseiniRead
A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.
Paul Laurence DunbarRead
Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here
Oprah WinfreyRead
Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.
Doris LessingRead
The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
Elizabeth WurtzelRead