D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sorry, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

• The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Self, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9093, Delphi Classics

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

• For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

• The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Ideas, Bird

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.336, Cambridge University Press

• The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Nature, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

• [Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

• I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course.--Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Morning, Swimming

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.372, Wordsworth Editions

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