D.H. Lawrence: Trending quotes (page 4)

“And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.”

“When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”

“And in this passion for understanding her soul lay close to his; she had him all to herself. But he must be made abstract first.”

“My God, these folks don't know how to love — that's why they love so easily.”

“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”

“She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.”

“She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.”

“It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.”

“How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.”

“They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.”

“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were educated toinstead of earn and spend, they could manage very happily…”

“As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction”

“You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--”

“Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

“You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!”

“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one
soul, and he has got dozens.”

“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.”

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.”

“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.”