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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence quotes

English Writer September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. David Herbert Lawrence
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about. David Herbert Lawrence
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. David Herbert Lawrence
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble. David Herbert Lawrence
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be David Herbert Lawrence
Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. David Herbert Lawrence
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life. David Herbert Lawrence
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once. David Herbert Lawrence
Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life intoare awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowingfor long years. And for this reason, some old things are lovelywarm still with the life of forgotten men who made them. David Herbert Lawrence
In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on show, he had to see it. That was Life. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean..."
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. David Herbert Lawrence
How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases, sucking all the live-sap out of living things. David Herbert Lawrence
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having..."
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "But better die than live mechanically a life that is a..."
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. David Herbert Lawrence

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