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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence quotes

English Writer September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become..."
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. David Herbert Lawrence
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. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half..."
Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings? David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "In every living thing there is the desire for love."
In every living thing there is the desire for love. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "I shall always be a priest of love."
I shall always be a priest of love. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "I love trying things and discovering how I hate them."
I love trying things and discovering how I hate them. David Herbert Lawrence
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable..."
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. David Herbert Lawrence
Then he clambered into the boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he climbed over the side of the boat, his back rounded and soft -ah this was too much for her, too final a vision. She knew it and it was fatal. The terrible hopelessness of fate, and of beauty, such beauty! He was not like a man to her, he was an incarnation, a great phase of life. She saw him press the water out of his face, and look at the bandage on his hand. And she knew it was... David Herbert Lawrence
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. David Herbert Lawrence
Having lived among the owning classes, he knew the utter futility of expecting any solution of the wage-squabble. There was no solution, short of death. The only thing was not to care, not to care about the wages. Yet, if you were poor and wretched, you had to care. Anyhow, it was becoming the only thing they did care about. The care about money was like a great cancer, eating away the individuals of all classes. He refused to care about money. And what then? What did life offer apart from... David Herbert Lawrence
For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean? David Herbert Lawrence
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him. David Herbert Lawrence
She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forthmercilessly. And she wanted to harbour her modicum of twinkling life. David Herbert Lawrence
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. David Herbert Lawrence

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