D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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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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• Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Change, Oblivion, Made

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.540, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Falling In Love, Done, Ifs

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fun, Ifs, Values

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Freedom, Fighting

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Inspirational, Sky

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

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• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sorry, Saws, Self Pity

  Pansies (1929) "Self-Pity"

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  World, Fit, Chopping

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1494, Delphi Classics

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Inspirational, Unseen, Consciousness

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, Lying, Mean

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

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Positive, Literature

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Best Friend

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• Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leave Me Alone, Going Away, Want

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1441, Delphi Classics

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• 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

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• 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

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• The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Essentials, Killers

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Air, Roots

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8458, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• 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

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