D. H. Lawrence Quotes about Past

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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

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Sleep, Romantic Love, Past

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

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

D. H. Lawrence

Past, Waiting, Sitting

D. H. Lawrence, Brian Finney (1983). “St Mawr and Other Stories”, p.115, Cambridge University Press

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

D. H. Lawrence

Dream, Healing, Past

D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4192, Delphi Classics

All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D. H. Lawrence

Past, America, Tangled

D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Greenspan, Lindeth Vasey (2003). “Studies in Classic American Literature”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

D. H. Lawrence

Art, Past, Long

D. H. Lawrence, Simonetta de Filippis (2002). “Sketches of Etruscan Places and Other Italian Essays”, p.33, Cambridge University Press