Doris Lessing Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotions—and your extraordinary and remarkable ideas—can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Pain, Writing

• 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

  Pain, Watches, Cost

  Doris May Lessing (1992). “Canopus in Argos: Archives”

• Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.

  Doris Lessing

  Pain, Cat, Knowing

  Doris May Lessing (1991). “Particularly Cats-- and Rufus”, Alfred A. Knopf

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