Famous Quotes | But it isn’t only the terror...
But it isn’t only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It’s more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it’s a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.
- Doris Lessing
Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. Anna Wulf, in The Golden Notebook, p. 454, Simon and Schuster (1962).
Categories: Emotion, Power, Property
