D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 13

Quotes about:

• As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

  D. H. Lawrence

  Too Much, Divine, Destruction

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.218, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Bullying, People

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8067, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, Games, People

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

  7 Copy quote

• Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Obscurity

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.849, D. H. Lawrence

  7 Copy quote

• A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
  Where light pushes through;
  A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
  A dip to the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Air, Bridges, Circles

  D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.50, Courier Dover Publications

  21 Copy quote

• Persephone herself is but a voice
  or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
  of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom,
  among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the
  lost bride and her groom.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Dark, Voice

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6848, Delphi Classics

  27 Copy quote

• Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Humans, Human Beings

  7 Copy quote

• I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dog, Steps, Invincible

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

• When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

  D. H. Lawrence

  People, Lovely, Language

  Pansies (1929) "When I Read Shakespeare"

  9 Copy quote

• They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Blood, Sea, Aging

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• I shall always be a priest of love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Priests

  D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

  10 Copy quote

• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Anger, Justice, Judgement

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

  16 Copy quote

• Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

  D. H. Lawrence

  War, Literature, Propaganda

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

  8 Copy quote

• What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Time, Wings

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.288, D. H. Lawrence

  9 Copy quote

• Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Mother, Women

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Knowledge, Loss

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

  4 Copy quote

• In my very own self, I am part of my family.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Self, My Family

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Education, Mother, Children

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Passion, Littles, Magnificent

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

• Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Doors, Difficult, Be Careful

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6887, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Fall, Passion

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.53, 谷月社

  5 Copy quote

• In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Loss, Masturbation

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

  14 Copy quote

• Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Tree, Speak, Breathe

  D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

  4 Copy quote

• What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Laughter, Men, Genius

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8702, Delphi Classics

  9 Copy quote

Page 13 of 28

First

← Prev

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin