Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.
Iris MurdochWe shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
Iris MurdochEating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.
Iris Murdoch