D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Motivation, Regret

• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Soul, Depth

• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Intuition, Mind, Body

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10014, Delphi Classics

• I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Relationship, Roots

• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Religious, Believe, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

• Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Should Have, Fading, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix

• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Women, Safe, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

• With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Want, Sticks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3522, Delphi Classics

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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