D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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

• At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Healing, Past

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4192, Delphi Classics

• All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

• The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Moon, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

• Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, Waiting, Sitting

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

• I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Past, Greatness

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

• All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, America, Tangled

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

• 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

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