D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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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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• 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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• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liberty, Literature, Masters

  D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.61, Wordsworth Editions

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Positive, Literature

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Flower, Roots

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

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• I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Sneezing, Spiteful

  Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 246

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

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  Dust, Turns, Substitution

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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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• Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

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  Beauty, Patterns, Beautiful Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.146, Cambridge University Press

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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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• What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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  Intuition, Desire, Instinct

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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• The living moment is everything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Time, Self Help, Moments

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• 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

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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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• The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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  Water, Mind, Glitter

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

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• I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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  Inspirational, Motivation, Regret

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• Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Real, People, Looks

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3928, Delphi Classics

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• A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

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  Love You, Sleep, Men

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

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  Literature, Consciousness, Ends

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

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• The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

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  Principles, Life Is, Forfeit

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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

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  World, Fit, Chopping

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

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