D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 8

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• For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

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  Desire, Ends, Finality

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1143, Book House

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• I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Men, Ostriches

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.228, Cambridge University Press

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• I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.

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  Science, Swans, Space

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6729, Delphi Classics

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• I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

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  Sex, Dirty, Civilization

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8707, Delphi Classics

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• A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

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  Men, Religion, Atheism

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.40, Cambridge University Press

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• If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'.

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  Military, Sick, Band

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

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  Travel, Adventure, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.294, Cambridge University Press

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• You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

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  Love, Pockets, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.520, Simon and Schuster

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• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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  Heart, Men, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.122, Cambridge University Press

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• For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

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  Men, Tails, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, Keith Sagar (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

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  Feelings, Literature, Havens

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

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• Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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  People, Hypocrisy, Used

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3740, Delphi Classics

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• Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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  Knowledge, Eye, Sight

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• In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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  God, Hero, Character

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

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  Intuition, Mind, Body

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10014, Delphi Classics

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• My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

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  Blood, Soul, Depth

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• And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

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  Peace, Morning, Flower

  "Shadows" l. 1 (1932)

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• Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Book, Feelings, Criticism

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.209, Cambridge University Press

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• No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

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  Leadership, Women, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5279, Delphi Classics

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• We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

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  Art, Science, Psychology

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

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  Mother, Hard Work, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8255, Delphi Classics

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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  Dream, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.100, Cambridge University Press

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• Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

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  Mean, Our Society, Idiot

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6708, Delphi Classics

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• When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

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  Love, Spiritual, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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  Heart, Hands, Religion

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.256, Cambridge University Press

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