Famous quotes containing the words sting and/or people:
“Yet there is a mystery here and it is not one that I understand: without the sting of otherness, ofeventhe vicious, without the terrible energies of the underside of health, sanity, sense, then nothing works or can work. I tell you that goodness-what we in our ordinary daylight selves call goodness: the ordinary, the decentthese are nothing without the hidden powers that pour forth continually from their shadow sides. Their hidden aspects contained and tempered.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if ... there werent any other people living in the world.”
—Anne Frank (19291945)