D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cities, Tree, Alive

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.80, Cambridge University Press

• This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Dark, Men

• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

• What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Connections, Cosmos, Earth

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, World

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

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

• Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Past, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• 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

• Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Cosmos, Mankind, Rhythm

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.328, Cambridge University Press

• Man is a thought-adventurer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thoughtful, Men, Thinking

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.281, Jester House Publishing

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Deities, Study

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9101, Delphi Classics

• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Religious, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2000). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.30, Modern Library

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