D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 2

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• In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Loss, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.177, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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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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• We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Dance, Dancing, Cosmos

  "Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation".

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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 dead don't die. They look on and help.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Death, Funeral, Looks

  Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  Soul, Literature

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

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• No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Women, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.5279, Delphi Classics

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth, of glow. And when this glow becomes a pure shine, then we feel the sense of beauty. We all have the fire of sex slumbering or burning inside us. If we live to be ninety, it is still there. Or, if it dies, we become one of those ghastly living corpses which are unfortunately becoming more numerous in the world.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Fire, Shining

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• Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater the peril, the greater the disaster. Because to place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each human being is a ship that must sail its own course, even if it go in company with another ship.... And yet, love is the greatest thing between human beings.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love Is, Way, Ships

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.201, Jester House Publishing

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

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• 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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  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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• 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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• 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

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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.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Water, Mind, Glitter

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

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• 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

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• I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mistake, Emotional, Self

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.160, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Evil, Secret, Passionate

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.315, 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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• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hard Work, Sky, Age

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

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• One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Leadership, Motivation, Rushing

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.130, Cambridge University Press

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• How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Children, Firsts, Educate

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Eye, Blood, Sea

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8554, Delphi Classics

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