D. H. Lawrence Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dream, Sleep, Men

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

• Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Birthday, Knowledge, Age

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

• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Heart, Hands, Religion

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

• For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

• Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Positive, Literature

• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ethical Principles, Justice, Judging

  "Medical Ethics and Humanities". Book by Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita Nixon, March 9, 2010.

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.62, Cambridge University Press

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Journey, Soul, Suffering

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Passion, Literature

  1922 Fantasia of the Unconscious, ch.15.

• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Religion, Atheism

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

• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wise, Wisdom, Funeral

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Literature, Madness

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.284, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Consciousness, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.93, Cambridge University Press

• 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

• My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

• Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lovely, Ferrets, Noble

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.269, Xist Publishing

• The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Justice, Sensual, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.277, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Feelings, Literature, Havens

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

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Motherhood, Blood

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

• God doesn't know things. He is things.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Reality, Literature, Knows

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.736, Delphi Classics

• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Forget, Consciousness

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

• But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Literature, Repetition

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.186, Xist Publishing

• I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Luck, Literature, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1124, Book House

• If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Women, Literature, Dry

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

• 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

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