D. H. LAWRENCE QUOTES
English author (1885-1930)
A small bird will drop frozen dead
From a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Self-Pity"
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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
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"
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation
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
I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce.
D. H. LAWRENCE
letter to John Middleton Murry, Oct. 3, 1924
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
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"Nemesis"
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?
D. H. LAWRENCE
Studies in Classic American Literature
She could not be princess by wealth or standing. So she was mad to have learning whereon to pride herself. For she was different from other folk, and must not be scooped up among the common fry.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers
Money is the seal and stamp of success.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Where sanity is
there God is.
D. H. LAWRENCE
"God"
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Sons and Lovers
Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Women in Love