D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hard Work, Sky, Age

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Knowledge, Age

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

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Tragedy, Aging

  Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

• Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Feelings, Age

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8441, Delphi Classics

• Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Mother, Children

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

• The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Oneness, Age

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

• Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Sex, Rocks

• The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Sea, Age

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

• I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

  D. H. Lawrence

  War, Believe, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

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