D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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• Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

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  World, Fit, Chopping

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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• There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

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  Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The great home of the soul is the open road.

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  Courage, Home, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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  Love, Inspirational, Sky

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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  Life, Positive, Literature

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

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  Sorry, Saws, Self Pity

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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• Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

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  Poison, Havens

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

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• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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• America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

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  Life, Real, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

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  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

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  Morning, Stars, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.2504, D. H. Lawrence

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

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  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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• The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Soul

  "The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence".

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• A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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  Love You, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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  Sleep, Three, Drink

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1099, Book House

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• If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

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  Ifs

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

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  Birthday, Knowledge, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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  Freedom, Lying, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

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  Beauty, Patterns, Beautiful Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Regret

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• Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

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  Stars, Cutting, Roots

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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  Life, Wisdom, Taken

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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• Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

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  Race, Air, Roots

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8458, Delphi Classics

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