D H Lawrence Quotes (27 quotations)
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1. Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. - D H Lawrence
2. But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. - D H Lawrence
3. But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - D H Lawrence
4. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. - D H Lawrence
5. For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. - D H Lawrence
6. Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you. - D H Lawrence
7. How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. - D H Lawrence
8. I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D H Lawrence
9. I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D H Lawrence
10. 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. - D H Lawrence
11. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. - D H Lawrence
12. It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. - D H Lawrence
13. Men! The only animal in the world to fear. - D H Lawrence
14. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. - D H Lawrence
15. One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. - D H Lawrence
16. Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. - D H Lawrence
17. Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. - D H Lawrence
18. The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. - D H Lawrence
19. The human soul needs actual beauty more that bread. - D H Lawrence
20. The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. - D H Lawrence
21. The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. - D H Lawrence
22. The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. - D H Lawrence
23. then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. - D H Lawrence
24. Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - D H Lawrence
25. We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. - D H Lawrence
2. But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. - D H Lawrence
3. But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - D H Lawrence
4. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. - D H Lawrence
5. For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. - D H Lawrence
6. Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you. - D H Lawrence
7. How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. - D H Lawrence
8. I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. - D H Lawrence
9. I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself. - D H Lawrence
10. 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. - D H Lawrence
11. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. - D H Lawrence
12. It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. - D H Lawrence
13. Men! The only animal in the world to fear. - D H Lawrence
14. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. - D H Lawrence
15. One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. - D H Lawrence
16. Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. - D H Lawrence
17. Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. - D H Lawrence
18. The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. - D H Lawrence
19. The human soul needs actual beauty more that bread. - D H Lawrence
20. The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. - D H Lawrence
21. The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction. - D H Lawrence
22. The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. - D H Lawrence
23. then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. - D H Lawrence
24. Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that. - D H Lawrence
25. We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. - D H Lawrence
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