Author of quotes: Iris Murdoch

… You will not have time to renounce power in one form, as you already need it in another form.

When you seek the truth, you always run the risk of getting lost in clever speculation. Sometimes you should not try to lift her veil.

An unrelenting sense of guilt can last for years and infuse life into the specter of the person we are guilty of.

... Keeping someone's letters always means something.

No death is like the other, but each one introduces us into the same world, into a world where we so rarely enter, where it becomes clear to us all the worthlessness of what we have been chasing for so long and so soon will rush in pursuit again.

... We all live in the light of self-satisfaction, for the sake of some secret, restless inner essence, even more incomprehensible than our mind. Otherwise, we cannot live, unless we are saints, but are there saints among us?

Perhaps this is a sign of old age, that I am busy all day, although I do not really do anything.

... Life, unlike art, has an unfortunate property - although stumbling and limping, to move on, reducing moral rebirth, questioning the clues and generally showing the complete impossibility of living righteously and happily until the last breath ...

The name is the path.

Not falling in love, but love - that's what is important.

If there is mental anguish that is stronger than the anguish of jealousy, it is fruitless regrets. Even the pain of loss is not so painful, and often they torment at the same time ...

Some women ... are endowed with a strikingly changeable appearance, can seem both ugly and beautiful.

How we strive by any means, by any reason to cover up the horror of death and loss, as if fate itself, having struck us a blow, demands that we justify it.

Young people are also ruthless, they want to survive at all costs.