Iris Murdoch Marriage Quotations

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

People who boast of happy marriages are, I submit, usually self-deceivers, if not actually liars.