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Top 20 Louise Doughty Quotes (2025 Update)

Louise Doughty Quote: “Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.”

1. “Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.”

2. “Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.”

3. “You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the present while, and not irrevocably, nor for ever, but like a fig or a bunch of grapes in the appointed season and if you long for it in the winter, you are a fool.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know?”

4. “How many times in a life does a person get to feel an instant attraction for someone one has just met, the eyes locking, the sudden and overwhelming conviction that this is someone he or she is meant to know?”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.”

5. “Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.”

6. “Sometimes the past seemed like enough, in comparison with the disappointments of the present.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.”

7. “Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.”

8. “Self-awareness: it is one of the chief bonuses of advancing age. It is our consolation prize.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “Quando decidi di non dire qualcosa devi continuare a non dirlo. Basta poco, penso. Basta poco per trasformare la tua vita in una menzogna.”

9. “Quando decidi di non dire qualcosa devi continuare a non dirlo. Basta poco, penso. Basta poco per trasformare la tua vita in una menzogna.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather – men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.”

10. “She talks about men in the same amiable, unsurprised way that people talk about the weather – men are a kind of constant. a background note. They are useful objects for meaningless chatter when there is nothing else more important to talk about.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “And here’s the thing- when we have someone to say that- we feel annoyed with them. We grumble back. We have no idea how much we would miss having someone who has a bit of a go at us if they weren’t there- irritation is a form of love and love the seedbed in which it flourishes. If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t be irritated.”

11. “And here’s the thing- when we have someone to say that- we feel annoyed with them. We grumble back. We have no idea how much we would miss having someone who has a bit of a go at us if they weren’t there- irritation is a form of love and love the seedbed in which it flourishes. If we didn’t care, we wouldn’t be irritated.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.”

12. “I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “The dead don’t bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is nothing in this cemetery. It’s just an empty field.”

13. “The dead don’t bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is nothing in this cemetery. It’s just an empty field.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.”

14. “We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “There’s a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.”

15. “There’s a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters – the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial.”

16. “The first day without you is painful in a way that is almost exquisite. I imagine quitting smokers must feel like this, or crash-dieters – the early determination, where the loss of what you have given up is replaced with the adrenaline of denial.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “He is proud that his job includes an element of protecting the British public from explosive devices, even though the British public probably thinks he’s the one most likely to be planting them.”

17. “He is proud that his job includes an element of protecting the British public from explosive devices, even though the British public probably thinks he’s the one most likely to be planting them.”

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Louise Doughty Quote: “The Water gets hot very gradually, and as far as the frog is concerned, there is no one point where it gets dramatically different or bad enough to jump out.”

18. “The Water gets hot very gradually, and as far as the frog is concerned, there is no one point where it gets dramatically different or bad enough to jump out.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.”

19. “There is the mundane, then there is the unthinkable – between the two, a chasm into which our imaginations tumble.”

— Louise Doughty

Louise Doughty Quote: “It’s a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. Your husband snores. Your wife leaves wet towels on the floor. But he brings you tea every morning. She’s a terrific cook. All unions, all associations, every partnership- they all have their benefits and their drawbacks, their subscription fees.”

20. “It’s a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. Your husband snores. Your wife leaves wet towels on the floor. But he brings you tea every morning. She’s a terrific cook. All unions, all associations, every partnership- they all have their benefits and their drawbacks, their subscription fees.”

— Louise Doughty

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