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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

David Herbert Lawrence quotes about people

English Writer September 11, 1885 – March 2, 1930

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David Herbert Lawrence quote: "People always make war when they say they love peace."
People always make war when they say they love peace. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such..."
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. David Herbert Lawrence
Meanwhile you just lived on and there was nothing to it. She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed, and Charlestoned till they were ready to drop. You had to take it out some way or other, your youth, or it ate you up. But what a ghastly thing, this youth! You felt as old as Methuselah, and yet the thing fizzed somehow, and didn't let you be comfortable. A mean sort of life! And no prospect! She almost wished she had gone off with Mick, and made her life one... David Herbert Lawrence
Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty linen, always this air of alertness for personal happenings, personalities, personalities, personalities. Always this subtle criticism and appraisal of other people, this analysis of other people’s motives. If anatomy presupposes a corpse, then psychology presupposes a world of corpses. Personalities, which means personal criticism and analysis, presuppose a whole world laboratory of human psyches... David Herbert Lawrence
But mankind is a dead tree, covered with fine brilliant galls of people.[..]And if it is so, why is it? she asked, hostile. They were rousing each other to a fine passion of opposition. Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. David Herbert Lawrence
But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going. David Herbert Lawrence
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
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
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness..."
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads..."
Used to all kinds of society, she watched people as one reads the pages of a novel, with a certain disinterested amusement. 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
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know..."
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. David Herbert Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence quote: "Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who..."
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. David Herbert Lawrence
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people. David Herbert Lawrence

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