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D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 25

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Christian, Past, Greatness

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

People, Soul, Literature

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8753, Delphi Classics

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Love You, Half, Know Yourself

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

Rest Of Life, Literature, Care

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.200, Cambridge University Press

There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.

Self, Soul, Phrases

D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

Death, Journey, Ships

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6883, Delphi Classics

And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

Passion, Soul, Understanding

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.165, Courier Dover Publications

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

Hate, Tragedy, Literature

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

Jobs, Real, Mind

D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Country, Europe, America

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4224, Delphi Classics

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

Father, Race, Europe

D. H. Lawrence, Paul Eggert (2002). “Twilight in Italy and Other Essays”, p.118, Cambridge University Press

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

Men, Beard, Neckties

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4166, Delphi Classics

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Writing, Plans, Knows

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.

Hate, Ideas, Feelings

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.39, Cambridge University Press

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

Writing, Play, Literature

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.198, Cambridge University Press

A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

Men, Fire, House

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.532, Book House

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Men, Example, Subtle

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8926, Delphi Classics

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Depression, Men, Hands

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

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

Bait, Culture, Drink

'Don'ts' (1929)

Love's a dog in a manger.

Love, Dog

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.414, 谷月社

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Love, Positive, Negative

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.538, D. H. Lawrence

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

Children, Fall, Mean

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Oneself, Conscience

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.151, D. H. Lawrence

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

Light, Space, Darkness

D. H. Lawrence (2004). “Sons and Lovers”, p.191, online-ebooks.info

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Europe, America, Lobster

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