Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 19

All Quotes Age Aging Art Atheism Autumn Awareness Beauty Being Yourself Belief Bones Change Children Communication Consciousness Country Courage Creation Darkness Death Democracy Depression Desire Dying Earth Education Effort Equality Evil Experience Falling In Love Fate Feelings Fighting Freedom Friendship Giving God Gold Hate Heart History Home House Humanity Individualism Insanity Inspirational Intuition Jesus Journey Joy Judging Justice Knowledge Language Leadership Liberty Life Literature Loss Love Lying Madness Magic Mankind Marriage Money Moon Morality Morning Mountain Nature Oblivion Pain Passion Past Peace Perfection Poetry Positive Psychology Purpose Rain Reading Reality Religion Responsibility Romance Running Sanity Science Self Pity Shame Sin Singing Sleep Society Soul Spring Struggle Suffering Sympathy Time Tragedy Travel Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wife Wisdom Writing Youth

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

Men, College, Wind

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Taste, Youth, Immortality

D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1881, Simon and Schuster

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Liberty, Individual, Esteem

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

Strong, Sex, Rocks

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

Philosophy, Blessed, Mean

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

Years, Discovery, Self

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.22, Cambridge University Press

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

Love

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.47, ReadHowYouWant.com

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Atheism, Modern, Photograph

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4191, Delphi Classics

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

Cutting, Smell, Psychology

D. H. Lawrence (1956). “The Virgin and the Gipsy”

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

Moments, Standards, Young

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3700, Delphi Classics

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Strong, Responsibility, Wish

D. H. Lawrence (2006). “Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.89, Courier Corporation

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

Friendship, Marriage, Passion

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9049, Delphi Classics

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

Men, Sensitive, Know Me

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.205, D. H. Lawrence

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Party, People, House

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up, from drink you become sober, and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No, the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.

Home, Sleep, Two

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9406, Delphi Classics

Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

Lying, Tree, Humanity

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.1009, Book House

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

Men, Self, Suffering

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Women, Fame, Donkey

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.570, Book House

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Husband, Wife, Unhappiness

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.187, ReadHowYouWant.com

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time.

Nice, Rain, Love You

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8237, Delphi Classics

Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

Love, Freedom, Yield

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

Music, Mother, Children

D.H. Lawrence (1961). “Selected Poems”

The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth.

Fall, Winter, Hands

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Travel, Moving, Tourism

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Sea and Sardinia”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas.

Past, Sea, Age

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

You May Also Like: