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D. H. Lawrence Quotes - Page 9

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[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

America, Deceit, Literature

When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered.

Love, Spiritual, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2015). “D. H. Lawrence The Dover Reader”, p.34, Courier Dover Publications

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.

Effort, Together, Want

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.1156, D. H. Lawrence

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Car, Stones, States

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6668, Delphi Classics

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

Art, Museums, Hands

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7617, Delphi Classics

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

Writing, Humanity, Literature

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus”, p.55, 谷月社

Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.

Marriage, Wisdom, Love You

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

Money, Play, Done

D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.

Real, Parent, Feelings

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8442, Delphi Classics

I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

Eye, Blood, Sea

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

Men, World, Idiot

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.361, D. H. Lawrence

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

Women, Safe, Belief

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

Life, Hurt, Ocean

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up, only more force. And the strong driving force usually finds his weak spot, and he goes cranked, or goes under.

Strong, Men, Artist

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

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

Knowledge, Goal, Consciousness

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8261, Delphi Classics

We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

Sunset, Fire, Water

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

Fall, Moon, Knows

D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Rainbow”, p.300, Wordsworth Editions

A book lives as long as it is unfathomed.

Book, Reading, Long

D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.60, Cambridge University Press

The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.

Fall, Autumn, Snow

Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 3 Oct. 1924, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 2, p. 812

And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

Passion, Hymns, White

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Amores: Top Novelist Focus”, p.29, 谷月社

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

Rome, America, Evil

1923 'Cypresses'.

All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.180, D. H. Lawrence

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

Book, Men, Alive

D. H. Lawrence, Bruce Steele (1985). “Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays”, p.195, Cambridge University Press

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Land, Sorrow, Gold

D. H. Lawrence (1995). “The Plumed Serpent”, p.160, Wordsworth Editions

She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

Mom, Mother, Strong

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