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D.H. Lawrence Quotes | Quotes said by D.H. Lawrence

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #1

    A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #2

    All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #3

    All the lot. Their spunk is gone dead. Motor-cars and cinemas and aeroplanes suck that last bit out of them. I tell you, every generation breeds a more rabbity generation, with India rubber tubing for guts and tin legs and tin faces. Tin people! It’s all a steady sort of bolshevism just killing off the human thing, and worshipping the mechanical thing. Money, money, money! All the modern lot get their real kick out of killing the old human feeling out of man, making mincemeat of the old Adam and the old Eve. They’re all alike. The world is all alike: kill off the human reality, a quid for every foreskin, two quid for each pair of balls. What is cunt but machine-fucking! — It’s all alike. Pay ’em money to cut off the world’s cock. Pay money, money, money to them that will take spunk out of mankind, and leave ’em all little twiddling machines.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #4

    And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.
    Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #5

    And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the resumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #6

    And her soul died in her for fear: she knew she had never seen him, he had never seen her, they had met in the dark and had fought in the dark, not knowing whom they met nor whom they fought.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #7

    And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #8

    And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #9

    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.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #10

    And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #11

    And who should have the money, indeed, if not your wives? They have everything to do with the money. What idea have you, but to waste it!

    Women waste nothing--they couldn't if they tried, said Aaron Sisson.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #12

    And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #13

    Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.
    'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.'
    (Women in Love)

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #14

    But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself a false wholeness, a false individuality. Modern democracy is made up of millions of frictional parts all asserting their own wholeness.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    But you don't fuck me cold-heartedly,' she protested.
    'I don't want to fuck you at all.'
    Lady Chatterly's Lover

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #17

    Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #18

    Democracy in America was never the same as Liberty in Europe. In Europe Liberty was a great life-throb. But in America Democracy was always something anti-life. The greatest democrats, like Abraham Lincoln, had always a sacrificial, self-murdering note in their voices. American Democracy was a form of self-murder, always. Or of murdering somebody else... The love, the democracy, the floundering into lust, is a sort of by-play. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #19

    Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #20

    For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #21

    For God’s sake, let us be men
    not monkeys minding machines
    or sitting with our tails curled
    while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.

    Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #22

    For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #23

    From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #24

    Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #25

    He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #26

    He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #27

    Her eyes were like the first morning of the world, so ageless

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    Humanity is a huge aggregate lie, and a huge lie is less than a small truth. Humanity is less, far less than the individual because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies. And they say that love is greatest thing, they persist in saying this, the foul liars, and just look at what they do (...It's a lie to say that love is greatest, what people want is hate - hate, and nothing but hate. And in the name of righteousness and love they get it...If we want hate, let us have it - death, murder, torture, violent destruction- let us have it: but not in the name of love.

  • D.H. Lawrence Quote #30

    I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
    and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill.
    I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self,
    and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help
    and patience, and a certain difficult repentance
    long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself
    from the endless repetition of the mistake
    which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

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