D.H. LAWRENCE (1885-1930) WAS AN INFLUENTIAL ENGLISH NOVELIST, ESSAYIST, POET, AND CRITIC OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”
“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.”
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any Knight of the Grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it.”
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”
“But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.”
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
“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.”
“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”
“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. It is very queer. But my dreams make conclusions for me. They decide things finally. I dream a decision. Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer me them as dreams.”
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”
“And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.”
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.
And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”
“Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.”
“For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.”
“The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.”
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”
“… human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”
“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.”
“Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“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, The Complete Poems
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Letter to John Middleton Murry, 1913
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any Knight of the Grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Letter to Thomas Dunlop, July 7, 1914
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature, 1923
“But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Nottingham and the Mining Countryside (1921)
“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.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Search for Love
“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. It is very queer. But my dreams make conclusions for me. They decide things finally. I dream a decision. Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer me them as dreams.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Letter to Edward Garnett, January 29, 1012
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Apocalypse
“Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks.
Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools.
And their grandchildren are once more slaves.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Liberty’s Old Story
“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia
“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.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“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.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
“Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
“Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
“For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love
“The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“… human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...”
~ D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
“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.”
~ D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, 1915
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