Doris Mortman Quotes & Sayings

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. — Doris Mortman

Love shouldn't have to wear disguises. — Doris Mortman

I felt the joy of knowing that in some small way I had fought back against someone who wanted to rule me against my will. I said no. — Doris Mortman

If Recsk had taught him anything, it was that for those intent on killing, life was the ultimate revenge. — Doris Mortman

Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was. — Doris Mortman