Iris Murdoch Hate Quotations

Actors are cave dwellers in a rich darkness which they love and hate.

Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.

evil soon makes tools out of those who don't hate it.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.