Aging Quote by Doris Lessing Download Open image ““Our old friend maturity again! Well, I'm not going to be bullied by that one.”” — Doris Lessing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aging Friendship Old friend
“Never grow old gracefully. Hang on to your childish nature and fight tooth and nail to the very last laugh. You won’t get another… — David George Richards Copy Share Image
“Age doesn’t make us childish, as they say, It finds that we’re still children.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Some people would call what I do to Jack bullying, but you have to understand that I’ve known him since elementary school. We have… — Sarah Wylie Copy Share Image
“They say you don’t grow up until you lose your parents. Frankly, I’d prefer to be immature.” — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
“You and I have been friends long enough to know how to treat each other . . . I'm leaving for college. I think… — Sally Henson Copy Share Image
“There is one thing better than making a new friend,and that is keeping a old one.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“In the morning, when she wishes me to wake, she crouches on my chest, and pats my face with her paw. Or, if I am on my side, she crouches looking into my face. Soft, soft touches of her paw. I open my eyes, say I don't want to wake. I close my eyes. Cat gently pats my eyelids. Cat… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
You know, whenever women make imaginary female kingdoms in literature, they are always very permissive, to use the jargon word, and easy and generous and self-indulgent, like the relationships between women when there are no men around. They make each other presents, and they have little feasts, and nobody punishes anyone else. This is the female way of going along… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“She was using the water as she had used the fruit earlier—to calm herself, to assure herself of the possibility of normality. Yet all the time she was thinking: I’m right off balance. I feel as if the atmosphere of this flat were being poisoned, as if a spirit of perverse and ugly spite were everywhere. Yet it’s nonsense. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I remember World War II when there were very few books, very little paper available. For me to walk into a shop or look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“While she strode rapidly through the ward to the door at the other end, she was able to see that every bed or cot held an infant or a small child in whom the human template had been wrenched out of pattern, sometimes horribly, sometimes slightly. A baby like a comma, great lolling head on a stalk of a body...… — Doris Lessing Copy Share
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula. — Doris Lessing Copy Share
“The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.” — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
“Prayer of an Anonymous Abbess: Lord, thou knowest better than myself that I am growing older and will soon be old. Keep me from becoming too talkative, and especially from the unfortunate habit of thinking that I must say something on every subject and at every opportunity. Release me from the idea that I must straighten out other peoples' affairs.… — Anonymous Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish,… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Aging is like enlightenment at gunpoint. Before I had cancer, I lived my life for my art. After I had cancer, I lived my… — Anna Halprin Copy Share Image
All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
“You could see the signs of female aging as diseased, especially if you had a vested interest in making women too see them your way. Or you could see that a woman is healthy if she lives to grow old; as she thrives, she reacts and speaks and shows emotion, and grows into her face. Lines trace her thought and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share
Seek ye counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
