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D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 13

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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Ocean, Cities, Swamps

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.17, Cambridge University Press

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

Education, Bullying, People

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8067, Delphi Classics

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

Self, Games, People

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.51, Xist Publishing

A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

Air, Bridges, Circles

D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.50, Courier Dover Publications

Persephone herself is but a voice or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark of the arms Plutonic, and pierced with the passion of dense gloom, among the splendor of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.

Passion, Dark, Voice

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6848, Delphi Classics

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.

Growing Up, Responsibility, Obscurity

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.849, D. H. Lawrence

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Dog, Steps, Invincible

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.352, Cambridge University Press

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

Humans, Human Beings

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

People, Lovely, Language

Pansies (1929) "When I Read Shakespeare"

I shall always be a priest of love.

Love, Priests

D. H. Lawrence (1962). “The Art of Perversity”

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Blood, Sea, Aging

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6844, Delphi Classics

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

Anger, Justice, Judgement

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

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

War, Literature, Propaganda

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

Loss, Masturbation

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.245, Cambridge University Press

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.

Tree, Speak, Breathe

D. H. Lawrence, Keith Sagar (1986). “Selected Poetry”, ePenguin

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

Self, My Family

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

Change, Knowledge, Loss

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.44, 谷月社

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

Death, Mother, Women

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Time, Wings

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.288, D. H. Lawrence

Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned. Ah, no. All the animals in Paradise enjoyed the sensual passion of coition. Not because we sinned. But because we got sex into our head.

Sex, Fall, Passion

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.53, 谷月社

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

Birthday, Tragedy, Aging

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) ch. 1

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

Education, Mother, Children

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

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Doors, Difficult, Be Careful

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6887, Delphi Classics

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

Passion, Littles, Magnificent

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

Men, Jewels, Wire

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.29, Cambridge University Press

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