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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence quotes

English Writer September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930

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You know," he said to his mother, "I don't want to belong to the well-to-do middle class. I like my common people best. I belong to the common people." - Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence
But she would wake in the morning one day and feel her blood running, feel herself lying open like a flower unsheathed in the sun, insistent and potent with demand. David Herbert Lawrence
I am quite empty of feeling. I don't care the slightest bit in the world for anybody or anything except myself. But I do care for myself, and I'm going to survive in spite of them all, and I'm going to have my own success without caring the least in the world how I get it. Because I'm cleverer than they are, I'm cunninger than they are, even if I'm weak. I must build myself up proper protections, and entrench myself, and then I'm safe. I can sit inside my glass tower and feel nothing and be... David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of..."
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? David Herbert Lawrence
Men not men, but animas of coal and iron and clay. Fauna of the elements, carbon, iron, silicon: elementals. They had perhaps some of the weird inhuman beauty of minerals, the lustre of coal, the weight and blueness and resistance of iron, the transparency of glass. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The human soul needs beauty more than bread."
The human soul needs beauty more than bread. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "You can't insure against the future, except by really..."
You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. David Herbert Lawrence
Somewhere, deep down him, he was scared, he was born scared. And those who are born with fear are natural slaves, whose profund instint leads to dread, with poisonous fear, all of those who suddenly can possibly cut loose the slave colar around their necks. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. David Herbert Lawrence
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well..."
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. David Herbert Lawrence
Really! But weren't you fearfully tempted?' 'In the abstract but not in the concrete,' said Ursula. 'When it comes to the point, one isn't even tempted—oh, if I were tempted, I'd marry like a shot. I'm only tempted NOT to.' The faces of both sisters suddenly lit up with amusement. David Herbert Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in..."
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. David Herbert Lawrence

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