574 Quotes by Doris Lessing

This is because the nature of this place is a strong emotion - "nostalgia" is their word for it - which means a longing for what has never been, or at least not in the form and shape imagined.

I don't think I really saw people except as appendages to my needs. It's only now, looking back, that I understand, but at the time I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Oh, I simply can’t think. When I really want to depress myself, I think of all the brilliant men I know, married to their stupid wives. Enough to break your heart, it really is

So love is rest? The cosy corner? The little nook?Sometimes it ought to be. Sometimes it is.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Las palabras aparecen en tu mente y allí bailan a ritmos de los que tú conscientemente nada sabes. Cabos y rabos de palabras: pueden ser una indicación de un estado de ánimo oculto. Pueden removerse o cantar durante días, enloqueciéndote. Pueden ser como película invisible, como pelicula adhesiva, entre tú y la realidad.

What is history? A record of misery, brutality and stupidity. That'a all. That's all it ever will be.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.