All Doris Lessing Quotes
- I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis… All
- I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing Afflicted
- I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate Accept
- The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the face, ears, tail,… Afraid
- We've got to believe in our beautiful impossible blueprints. Beautiful
- Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for… Companionship
- Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades,… Asking
- ...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start worrying because the… Always Refused
- Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares. All
- Some people obtain fame, others deserve it. Deserve
- When I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other… Absolutely
- I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look at… Almost Anything
- Pearls mean tears. Mean Tears
- Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary! All
- I have ideas that I will probably never write now. Ideas
- The human race has been telling stories since it began. Been
- I was a nursemaid. And it was pretty boring. Boring
- Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. False
- I am your original autodidact. Autodidact
- There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best Best