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D. H. Lawrence Quotes about Life

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Life, Positive, Literature

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Inspirational, Life, Dream

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.359, Cambridge University Press

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.

Love, Life, Breakup

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

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Love, Life, Best Friend

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

Life, Real, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10167, Delphi Classics

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Life, Wisdom, Taken

D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Inspirational, Life, Positive

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2003). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.408, Cambridge University Press

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Life, Flower, Men

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

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Life, Sorry, Bird

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6615, Delphi Classics

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

Life, Nature, Men

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4361, Delphi Classics

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

Love, Life, Sex

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

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.

Life, Beauty, Sex

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Life, Literature, Repetition

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Women in Love”, p.186, Xist Publishing

For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

Life, Flower, Men

D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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

Life, Death, Real

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

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.

Life, Relationship, Roots

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Love, Life, Beautiful

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.42, Cambridge University Press

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

Life, Rain, Dark

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6884, Delphi Classics

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

Life, Real, Cynical

D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sons and Lovers: Top Novelist Focus”, p.7, 谷月社

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