D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 18

Quotes about:

• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wisdom, Blood, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.49, Cambridge University Press

  15 Copy quote

• The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Expression, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.179, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Absolutes

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8192, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery

  D. H. Lawrence

  Discovery, Self, Penetrate

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Fall, Cutting, Blow

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3944, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Real, America

  4 Copy quote

• To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Fire, Our World

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6863, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Punishment, Dangerous

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

  7 Copy quote

• I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Liberty, Individual, Esteem

  5 Copy quote

• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Past, America, Tangled

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

  5 Copy quote

• But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Beautiful, Book, Names

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.1234, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Literature, Vivid, Matter

  D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.174, Cambridge University Press

  4 Copy quote

• When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at that quick moment of time. His painting does not represent the sunflower itself. We shall never know what the sunflower itself is. And the camera will visualize the sunflower far more perfectly than van Gogh can.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Photography, Men, Sunflower

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8937, Delphi Classics

  92 Copy quote

• Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Men, Sea

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “The Plumed Serpent: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

• You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

  4 Copy quote

• Where sanity is there God is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Sanity

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.388, ReadHowYouWant.com

  4 Copy quote

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Deities, Study

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9101, Delphi Classics

  8 Copy quote

• Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
  Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love You, Being In Love, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6697, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

• Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Atheism, Needs

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4113, Delphi Classics

  7 Copy quote

• Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Art, Past, Long

  D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press

  16 Copy quote

• I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Relationship, Roots

  14 Copy quote

• I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Black, Machines

  D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Lady Chatterley's Lover”, p.183, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

• Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Home, Europe, Worn

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

  5 Copy quote

• The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Wonder, Sixth Sense, Sense Of Wonder

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

  5 Copy quote

Page 18 of 28

First

← Prev

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin