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D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 15

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The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

Country, Real, Men

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.291, Cambridge University Press

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning it was not a Word, but a chirrup.

Crush, Time, Jesus

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

Struggle, Joy, Needs

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

Men, Best Effort, Soul

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4272, Delphi Classics

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Sweet, Soul, Body

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

Wisdom, Soul, Morality

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8087, Delphi Classics

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Selfish, California, Effort

"The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

Fall, Power, Men

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

Children, Flower, Men

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.374, Cambridge University Press

Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.

Religious, Elements, May

'Hymns in a Man's Life'. Collected in Pheonix II: Uncollected, Unpublished and Other ProseWorks (1968).

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

Writing, Expression, Literature

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

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Jesus, Religion, Dry

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

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.

Fall, Cutting, Blow

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

The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to a picture. It has no idea of itself.

Self, Ideas, Bird

D. H. Lawrence, N. H. Reeve, John Worthen (2005). “Introductions and Reviews”, p.336, Cambridge University Press

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

Depression, Two, Long

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3771, Delphi Classics

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

Hopeless

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.126, Courier Dover Publications

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Children, Giving Up, And Love

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

Truth, Lying, Feelings

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “The Rainbow”, p.295, OUP Oxford

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Trying, Nails, Get Up

'Phoenix' (1936) 'Morality and the Novel'

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.

Beautiful, Book, Names

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

I love you, rotten, Delicious rottenness. ...wonderful are the hellish experiences, Orphic, delicate Dionysos of the Underworld.

Love You, Rotten, Wonderful

D.H. Lawrence (2016). “Snake and Other Poems”, p.56, Courier Dover Publications

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

Real, Garden, Literature

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

Ordinary World, Creative, Virtue

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

Should Have, Fading, Belief

D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Sons and Lovers”, p.367, BookRix

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Leadership, Responsibility, Equality

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