Doris Lessing Quotes

What is so painful about that time is that nothing was disastrous. It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From time to time the emotional lightning flashed and showed a landscape of private misery, and then - we went on dancing.

Doris Lessing

Quotes to Explore

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
- World
- Science
- Where
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Lance Armstrong
- Never
- Bike
- Falling
Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

Barack Obama
- Family
- Remember
- American
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest of things for why I take a job or do this. I always try to think of the many different factors in my life, and not one is pure greed. One is pure quality of life.

J. C. Chandor
- Life
- Different
- Why
If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.

Tamsin Greig
- May
- Home
- You
The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

Utada Hikaru
- People
- Up
- Different