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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence quotes

English Writer September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. David Herbert Lawrence
Ah God, what has man done to man? What have the leaders of men been doing to their fellow men? They have reduced them to less than humanness; and now there can be no fellowship any more! It is just a nightmare. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or..."
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph..."
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle..."
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. David Herbert Lawrence
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. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of..."
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old..."
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again..."
One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them. David Herbert Lawrence
Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing. David Herbert Lawrence
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like... David Herbert Lawrence
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my..."
Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no..."
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. David Herbert Lawrence
Some things can't be ravished. You can't ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth...! David Herbert Lawrence

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