D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 2

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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.

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  Dance, Dancing, Cosmos

  "Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation".

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• It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Funeral

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

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  Life, Sorry, Bird

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

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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.

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  Change, Oblivion, Made

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

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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.

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  Mistake, Emotional, Self

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

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• You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

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  Thrill, Ends, Live By

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.601, 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.

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  Sex, Fire, Shining

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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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• 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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• There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

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  Sleep, Three, Drink

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1099, Book House

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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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• Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

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  Law, Creative, Forever

  D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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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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• One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

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  Soul, Sticks, Traitor

  D. H. Lawrence (2007). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence: October 1916-June 1921”, p.118, 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.

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  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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• The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

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  Men, Emotional, Educated

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8936, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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• Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

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  Inspirational, Men, Self

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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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• 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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• 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.

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  Love Is, Way, Ships

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

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• The great home of the soul is the open road.

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  Courage, Home, Soul

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.408, Cambridge University Press

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