D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, World

  Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion"

• Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Animal

  Women in Love (1920) ch. 11

• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Love Is, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

• Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Fall, Passion

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.53, 谷月社

• He reflected on the decay of mankind-the decline of the human race into folly and weakness and rottenness. 'Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct' was his motto.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Race, Decay

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “The White Peacock: Top Novelist Focus”, p.168, 谷月社

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Totems, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.107, D. H. Lawrence

• You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Thrill, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels”, p.777, Book House Publishing

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