D. H. Lawrence Quotes about Death

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Funeral, Looks

Letter to J. Middleton Murry, 2 February 1923, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Vanity, Broken

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8354, Delphi Classics

Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Mother, Women

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.61, Cambridge University Press

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

D. H. Lawrence

Life, Death, Real

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.462, Book House

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Atheism, Needs

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4113, Delphi Classics

O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Wall, Journey

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Fall, Autumn

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Journey, Ships

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

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

D. H. Lawrence

Death, War, Black

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, Dying, Rising

David Herbert Lawrence (1994). “The Works of D.H. Lawrence: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.604, Wordsworth Editions