D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 4

Quotes about:

• I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Trying, I Hate

  D. H. Lawrence, M. L. Skinner (2002). “The Boy in the Bush”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

  19 Copy quote

• When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, People, Complaining

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

  13 Copy quote

• No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Long, Form

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

  25 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

  20 Copy quote

• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

  15 Copy quote

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Passion, Literature

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

  9 Copy quote

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Sorry, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

  30 Copy quote

• 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

  14 Copy quote

• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Men, Relation

  9 Copy quote

• You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Thrill, Ends, Live By

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.601, Cambridge University Press

  8 Copy quote

• Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dog, Men, Pet

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8566, Delphi Classics

  12 Copy quote

• Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sexy, Sex, Sensual

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1618, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

  12 Copy quote

• People always make war when they say they love peace.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Peace, War

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.492, ReadHowYouWant.com

  7 Copy quote

• Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Rip, Real, Snakes

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• While we live, let us live.

  D. H. Lawrence

  One Day

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.328, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Mackerel, Mass

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.37, D. H. Lawrence

  11 Copy quote

• Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fighting, Love Is, Laughing

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8283, Delphi Classics

  18 Copy quote

• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Giving, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3954, Delphi Classics

  10 Copy quote

• When I went to the scientific doctor
  I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me
  and reduce me to the level of a thing.
  So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Morning, Doctors, Lust

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6965, Delphi Classics

  20 Copy quote

• Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Wind, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

  47 Copy quote

• I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Fall, Philosophical

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

  10 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dust, Turns, Substitution

  6 Copy quote

Page 4 of 28

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin