D. H. LAWRENCE QUOTES

English author (1885-1930)

D. H. Lawrence quote

A small bird will drop frozen dead
From a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Self-Pity"

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Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

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Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

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We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover


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.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Search for Love"


What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: time


All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her own barbed wire, and mastered by her own machines.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

Tags: America


We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation

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Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued, so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: men


Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness.
And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"Nemesis"

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I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow leopard waiting to pounce.

D. H. LAWRENCE

letter to John Middleton Murry, Oct. 3, 1924

Tags: autumn


How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

D. H. LAWRENCE

Studies in Classic American Literature

Tags: soul


She could not be princess by wealth or standing. So she was mad to have learning whereon to pride herself. For she was different from other folk, and must not be scooped up among the common fry.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


Money is the seal and stamp of success.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover


If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Sons and Lovers


Where sanity is
there God is.

D. H. LAWRENCE

"God"

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Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Tags: conscience


Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.

D. H. LAWRENCE

Women in Love

Tags: humanity