D. H. Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930)

D. H. Lawrence was an English writer and poet. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. (D H Lawrence Quotes)

“A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”
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“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”
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“A terrible hollow seemed to menace him somewhere, somehow, a void, and into this void his energy would collapse. Energyless, he felt at times he was dead, really dead.”
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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
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“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to do with himself.”
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“And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.”
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“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.”
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“Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.”
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“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
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“He doesn’t have feelings, he only has streams of words about feelings.”
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“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.”
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“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was illusory. The industrial noises broke the solitude, the sharp lights, though unseen, mocked it. A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”
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“I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.”
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“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
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“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”
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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”
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“I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we are together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.”
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“If there’s got to be a future for humanity, there’ll have to be a very big change from what now is.”
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“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”
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“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.”
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“Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”
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“Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
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“Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.”
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“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.”
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“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There’s lots of good fish in the sea maybe but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you’re not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
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“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.”
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“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.”
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“We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
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“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.” “When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”
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