D.H. Lawrence Quotes
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A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.
Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.
Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.
You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.
You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness ... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
The officer sat with his long, fine hands lying on the table, perfectly still, and all his blood seemed to be corroding.
- The Prussian Officer
- The Prussian Officer
[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.
For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.
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.
The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.
You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the ordinary world.
The profoundest of all sensualities
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.
is the sense of truth
and the next deepest sensual experience
is the sense of justice.
Yea, Paris is a festive ton
a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy
Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy
Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
It's only when the ghastly mob-sleep, the dream helplessness of the mass psyche overcomes him, that he becomes completely base and obscene
That she bear children is not a woman's significance.
But that she bear herself,
that is her supreme and risky fate.
But that she bear herself,
that is her supreme and risky fate.
Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before it is time, too.
She was half watching, half musing. It was her constant state. Her eyes were keen and observant, but her inner mind took no notice of what she saw.
And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn ...
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.