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D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 26

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If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

Spiritual, Games, Hymns

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8830, Delphi Classics

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

Nature, Kissing, Nymphs

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

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.

Believe, Men, Community

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8184, Delphi Classics

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

Firsts, Steps, Common

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers”, p.197, D. H. Lawrence

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Death, War, Black

How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.

Attitude, Hate, Nice

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.542, Cambridge University Press

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.

Love You, Journey, Knights

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

Sky, Australia, Atmosphere

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

Men, Consistency, Doubt

D H Lawrence, Daniel Defoe (2012). “Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders”, p.267, Random House

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Laughter, Laughing, Brutality

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.181, Cambridge University Press

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

Issues, Confusion, Trying

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

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

Hands, Alcohol, Drug

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8224, Delphi Classics

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

Journey, Wells, Has Beens

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8130, Delphi Classics

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

Mad, Want, Said

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.382, Courier Dover Publications

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Heart, Eye, Violet

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7056, Delphi Classics

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Girl, Mean, Teens

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Able, Denied

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Squires (2002). “Lady Chatterley's Lover and A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

Literature, Strange, Absolutes

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Kangaroo”, p.151, Jester House Publishing

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

Should Have, Feels, Realising

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.530, Book House

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

Book, Men, Fullness Of Life

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconscious”, p.143, ReadHowYouWant.com

For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

Girl, Mean, Perfect

D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

Past, Moon, Men

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

Moon, Night, Sky

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

The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

Civilization, Oneness, Age

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Patience, Waiting, Forte

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3793, Delphi Classics

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