D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Sex

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Tragedy, Aging

  Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

• Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Giving, Tragedy, Farce

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Tragedy, Gold

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

• Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tragedy, Misery, Kicks

  Letter to A. W. McLeod, 6 October 1912, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 1

• The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fate, Tragedy, Weakness

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

• I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Tragedy, Literature

• Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
  Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Being In Love, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6697, Delphi Classics

• The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Real, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.291, Cambridge University Press

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