D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 4

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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.

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  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 tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Life, Sex

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• The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Class, Clothes, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive

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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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• Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Men, World

  Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923) "Mountain Lion"

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• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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  Art, Men, Relation

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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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• 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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• [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

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  Women, Safe, Belief

  D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

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• I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

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  Hate, Trying, I Hate

  D. H. Lawrence, M. L. Skinner (2002). “The Boy in the Bush”, p.393, Cambridge University Press

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• Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.

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  Stars, Cutting, Roots

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• The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

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  Beautiful, Imagination, World

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, 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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• Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

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  Mistake, Men, Needs

  D. H. Lawrence (1994). “D.H. Lawrence: Selected Works”, Gramercy

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• In every living thing there is the desire for love.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Romance, Desire

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.331, Cambridge University Press

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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.

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  Real, People, Looks

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

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• Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

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  Revenge, Men, Risk

  D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.181, Courier Dover Publications

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• There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

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  Religious, Wonder, Natural

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• no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

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  Love You, Love Is, Long

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.2390, Delphi Classics

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• Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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  Peace, Life And Love, Work

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

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• When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

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  Lonely, People, Complaining

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

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  Journey, Soul, Suffering

  D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

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  Done, Way, Likes

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.276, Cambridge University Press

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• Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

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  Love, Joy, Body

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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  Life, Wisdom, Taken

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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