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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What is a hero without love for mankind.
— Doris Lessing
How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to ...
— Doris Lessing
If you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.
— Doris Lessing
The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed.
— Doris Lessing
When there's a war, people get married.
— Doris Lessing
I never thought of London in terms of possible heroes - of course, there are thousands. It's a very talented city.
— Doris Lessing
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
— Doris Lessing
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I haven't got the energy to write now.
— Doris Lessing
She could not see what good it would do anyone to read a novel of this kind. Yet she was writing it.
— Doris Lessing
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is not too much to say that when the word "blood" is pronounced, this is a sign that reason is about to depart.
— Doris Lessing
The cleverest trick of the Devil is that nobody believes in him. It. Her. Well, we have been very stupid.
— Doris Lessing
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I've won all the prizes in Europe, every bloody one. I'm delighted to win them all, the whole lot.
— Doris Lessing
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
If what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again.
— Doris Lessing
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
— Doris Lessing
There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
— Doris Lessing
Everything all the time in a city is extraordinary!
— Doris Lessing
Better Counsel comes overnight.
— Doris Lessing
The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
— Doris Lessing
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[I wrote] '...letters designed to hide behind.
— Doris Lessing
Art is the Mirror of our betrayed ideals.
— Doris Lessing
Paul was even more difficult than Ben. But he was a normal "disturbed" child, not an alien.
— Doris Lessing
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Literature is analysis after the event.
— Doris Lessing
What I had that others didn't was a capacity for sticking to it.
— Doris Lessing
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.
— Doris Lessing
But how many moments are already past!Ah! who thinks of those that are past? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The thing is, I haven't changed at all.
— Doris Lessing
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
— Doris Lessing
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
— Doris Lessing
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.
— Doris Lessing
He had decided not to be angry: it was killing him.
— Doris Lessing
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty ... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.
— Doris Lessing
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I always hated Tony Blair, from the beginning.
— Doris Lessing
Choose? When do I ever choose? Have I ever chosen?
— Doris Lessing
It seems to me that ideas must flow through humanity like tides.
— Doris Lessing
It's very interesting what you don't care about.
— Doris Lessing
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
As always he behaved as if he were an abstraction, not really there, a machine without a soul.
— Doris Lessing
Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling.
— Doris Lessing
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
— Doris Lessing
The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.
— Doris Lessing
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
— Doris Lessing
The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
— Doris Lessing
I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.
— Doris Lessing
Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.
— Doris Lessing
The first thing I learned from Judy Blume was that God is the wrong one to ask for bigger breasts. (Stephanie Lessing)
— Jennifer O'Connell
There are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.
— Doris Lessing
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
She wanted to be acknowledged, her predicament given its value.
— Doris Lessing
We like to think we can solve everything, but we can't always.
— Doris Lessing
As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.
— Doris Lessing
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped.
— Doris Lessing
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I have you for being normal, I hate you for it. You're a normal human being. What right have you to that?
— Doris Lessing
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty.
— Doris Lessing
I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.
— Doris Lessing
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.
— Doris Lessing
You can only value something if you've experienced it.
— Doris Lessing
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
— Doris Lessing
Laughter is by definition healthy.
— Doris Lessing
Women are slaves to their beauty.
— Doris Lessing
Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.
— Doris Lessing
What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness.
— Doris Lessing
We need a shape for the tale. A beginning, a middle and an end.
— Doris Lessing
Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.
— Doris Lessing