D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• 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

• 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

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

• Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspiration, Passion, Purpose

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

• Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Believe, Men, Community

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

• 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

• Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, Society, Purpose

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