D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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• If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

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  Fun, Ifs, Values

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• Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

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  Love, Matter, Flow

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

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• While we live, let us live.

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  One Day

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

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• Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

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  Hate, Mind, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.309, Cambridge University Press

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• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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  Animal, Totems, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.107, D. H. Lawrence

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• And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

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  Horse, Two, Want

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.135, Xist Publishing

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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

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  Truth, Believe, Intelligent

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Discovery, Finding Yourself

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

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  Children, Freedom, Fighting

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.458, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Fighting, Love Is, Laughing

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

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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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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

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  Sorry, Saws, Self Pity

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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• We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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  Love, Inspirational, Sky

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3688, Delphi Classics

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• Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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  Soul, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence (2002). “Women in Love”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

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  Poison, Havens

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.300, Cambridge University Press

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• Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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  Freedom, Lying, Mean

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

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• When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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  Inspirational, Land, Over The Edge

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.983, D. H. Lawrence

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• When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

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  Travel, Glasses, Ego

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• I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

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

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  Life, Positive, Literature

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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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• Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

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  Love, Life, Breakup

  D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

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• Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• 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.

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  Giving, Tragedy, Farce

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.134, Cambridge University Press

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