D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 22

Quotes about:

Age Aging Animals Art Atheism Autumn Awareness

Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the chanting choristers,
The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

D. H. Lawrence

Black, Gold, Cypresses

'Giorno dei Morti' (1917)

4 Copy quote
The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

D. H. Lawrence

Moon, Night, Sky

D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

4 Copy quote
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D. H. Lawrence

Technology, Men, Chains That Bind

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

17 Copy quote
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Attending, Wholeness

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

7 Copy quote
There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as a term of our own limitation and ratification. We can only know that from the unknown, profound desires enter in upon us, and that the fulfilling of these desires is the fulfilling of creation.

D. H. Lawrence

Profound, Desire, Creation

"Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence".

4 Copy quote
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

D. H. Lawrence

Native American, Land, Red

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8205, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

D. H. Lawrence

Heaven, Sun, November

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6598, Delphi Classics

12 Copy quote
The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

D. H. Lawrence

Morning, Stars, Distance

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3360, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Australia, Perfection

1922 Letter, 28 May.

4 Copy quote
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

D. H. Lawrence

Rest Of Life, Literature, Care

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

4 Copy quote
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

D. H. Lawrence

People, Soul, Literature

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8753, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

D. H. Lawrence

Sex, Real, Conscious

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.472, Courier Dover Publications

4 Copy quote
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

D. H. Lawrence

Puritan, All Things

'Etruscan Places' (1932) 'Cerveteri'

17 Copy quote
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

D. H. Lawrence

Artist, Literature, Never Trust

Studies in Classic American Literature (1923) ch. 1

7 Copy quote
And can a man his own quietus make
with a bare bodkin?

D. H. Lawrence

Suicide, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

4 Copy quote
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

D. H. Lawrence

People, Society, Individualism

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.947, Book House

4 Copy quote
I see a redness suddenly come
Into the evening's anxious breast--
'Tis the wound of love goes home!

D. H. Lawrence

Home, Evening, Anxious

D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications

4 Copy quote
A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

D. H. Lawrence

Sex, Men, Years

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.323, Cambridge University Press

4 Copy quote
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

D. H. Lawrence

Running, Flames, Sensual

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence

10 Copy quote
Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

D. H. Lawrence

Men, Feelings, Vision

1929 'The Risen Lord'.

7 Copy quote
Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated! It is sickening! Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

D. H. Lawrence

Crazy, Museums, Hands

20 Copy quote
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

D. H. Lawrence

Two Sides, People, Literature

9 Copy quote
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

D. H. Lawrence

Equality, Men, Differences

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love: Top Novelist Focus”, p.108, 谷月社

4 Copy quote
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

D. H. Lawrence

Country, Men, Forever

37 Copy quote
There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond.

D. H. Lawrence

Dust, Lilies, Evolution

D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.139, Cambridge University Press

23 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Frieda Lawrence

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. H. Lawrence

Follow

Born: September 11, 1885
Died: March 2, 1930
Occupation: Novelist
Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics