D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Weakness

Quotes about: Weakness

• 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

• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

• 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

• Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Weak Man, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8467, Delphi Classics

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