108 Quotes by Nigella Lawson

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see.

You don't go around grieving all the time, but the grief is still there and always will be.

Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.

I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.

People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

There is a vast difference between how things seem from the outside and how they feel on the inside.

It sounds like something on a very trite T-shirt, but life is what happens.