Doris Lessing Quotes

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Dear friend, I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember his for the next time I'm having a terrible week. Have you wer done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don't know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I'll feel great again. It doesn't work a lot, but I think it's very important to try.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

I think I must be worried all the time - maybe that is the other side of joy, you know, holding that line of the full range of emotions.

The more neurosis the more wisdom.

I have no idea whether I am completely sane. I don't think anybody is. I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. I hope I don't hurt people. You hope not to hurt yourself too much, either. Maybe that's the definition of keeping yourself in check?

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me

It is well to remind ourselves that anxiety signifies a conflict, and so long as a conflict is going on, a constructive solution is possible.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I can see how, given a certain degree of sensitivities, proclivities and rage, I could have ended up differently.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

Here's the good news. If I realize that I'm insane, then I'm okay with it. I'm not dangerous insane.

I am neurotic, but I live with it. I think most people are, anyway.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

I'm good at playing the emotionally strangled person. The woman who is in the worst place in her life. That's me!

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.