"I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of……" — Doris Lessing
"I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world."
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201 Quotes by Doris Lessing
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When old settlers say 'One has to understand the country,' what they mean is, 'You have to get used to…
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When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being…
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She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every…
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A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
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Oh cat, I'd say, or pray: be-ootiful cat! Delicious cat! Exquisite cat! Satiny cat! Cat like a soft owl, cat…
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There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
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The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I…
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What matters most is that we learn from living.
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Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.
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And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist:…
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Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group…
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Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was…
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More Anguish Quotes
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
— Balthus
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.
— Roger Caras
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The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists,…
— Nick Cave
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I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish, what…
— Aberjhani
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of…
— Aldous Huxley
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At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all…
— Hermann Hesse
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Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer more than I ever did before. The other night,…
— Morrie Schwartz
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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