Time Quotes by Doris Lessing

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

— Doris Lessing

There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.

— Doris Lessing

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

— Doris Lessing

Time is the River on which the leaves of our thoughts are carried into oblivion.

— Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

— Doris Lessing

Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!

— Doris Lessing

Don't read a book out of its right time for you.

— Doris Lessing

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

— Doris Lessing

I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus…

— Doris Lessing

At no time, anywhere, was the population of a country told the truth: facts about events trickled into general consciousness much later,…

— Doris Lessing

Advice to young writers? Always the same advice: learn to trust our own judgment, learn inner independence, learn to trust that time…

— Doris Lessing

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are…

— Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and…

— Doris Lessing

“You have to read a book at the right time for you, and I am sure this cannot be insisted on too…

— Doris Lessing

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

— Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

— Doris Lessing

“For a long time I felt I had done a very brave thing. There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman…

— Doris Lessing

“But you know how it is—it’s always that moment, when a man looks all wounded in his masculinity, one can’t bear it,…

— Doris Lessing

“I write all these remarks with exactly the same feeling as if I were writing a letter to post into the distant…

— Doris Lessing

“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she was in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeing…

— Doris Lessing

I spend a good deal of time wondering how we will seem to the people who come after us. This is not…

— Doris Lessing

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than…

— Doris Lessing

You are taken, shaken, by moments when the improbability of our lives comes over you like a fever. Everything is remarkable, people,…

— Doris Lessing

“He leaves and she thinks for the hundredth time that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so…

— Doris Lessing

The 1960s was probably the first time in history that young people were recognized as a big group of consumers and as…

— Doris Lessing

“My sense of urgency is very simple,' said the professor, 'I've remembered that much. It's because what I have to remember has…

— Doris Lessing

It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which…

— Doris Lessing

“She had known it all the time: I'm so enormously exhausted, so utterly, basically tired, and in fibre of myself, that to…

— Doris Lessing

“The fight with my various forms of dissatisfaction tires me; but I know this is not a personal fight. When I talk…

— Doris Lessing

This is a time when it is frightening to be alive, when it is hard to think of human beings as rational…

— Doris Lessing

“So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off…

— Doris Lessing

“For suddenly it had changed into that gear when time is slower - as when, falling off a ladder, one has time…

— Doris Lessing

When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful…

— Doris Lessing

“A few minutes later she was concentrating on her novel, which was half-finished. The theme of this book was a suicide. The…

— Doris Lessing

“As in the political sphere, the child is taught that he is free, a democrat, with a free will and a free…

— Doris Lessing

“Nevertheless two men good-humouredly greeted her, and both times she froze into nervous annoyance, and walked on with hastening steps. She got…

— Doris Lessing

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social…

— Doris Lessing

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought…

— Doris Lessing

What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not…

— Doris Lessing

“she was wishing that whatever stage of her life she ws in now could be got through quickly, for it was seeming…

— Doris Lessing