Quotes by
D. H. Lawrence |
1885-1930 , British writer
English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters.His best-known novels are Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928).
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Quotations
| • | The great home of the soul is the open road. 7 |
| • | The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. 6 |
| • | Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies. 6 |
| • | Perhaps in Venice you'll find a man who'll put jasmine in your maiden-hair, and a pomegranate flower in your navel. Poor little lady Jane! 4 |
| • | Be a good animal, true to your instincts. 4 |
| • | Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself. 4 |
| • | Put thy shimmy on, Lady Chatterley! 3 |
| • | Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. |
| • | My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily. |
| • | It was in 1915 the old world ended. |
| • | Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. |
| • | 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. |
| • | She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. |
| • | Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. |
| • | The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. |
| • | But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. |
| • | It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives. |
| • | For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. |
| • | 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 unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board. |
| • | I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. |
| • | I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. |
| • | I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. |
| • | Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The human soul needs beauty more than bread. |
| • | The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. |
| • | I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams. |
| • | What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist. |
| • | If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. |
| • | When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. |
| • | “It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!” she said. |
| • | The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. |
| • | 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 only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. |
| • | 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. |
| • | There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. |
| • | This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. |
| • | You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. |
| • | It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. |
| • | Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of. |
| • | Man is a thought-adventurer. |
| • | No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. |
| • | 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. |
| • | The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. |
| • | As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction |
