D.H. Lawrence: Herring

D.H. Lawrence was English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. Explore interesting quotes on herring.
D.H. Lawrence: 262 quotes18 likes

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“There's lots of good fish in the sea… maybe… but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.”

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“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 book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“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.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Source: Sons and Lovers

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

D.H. Lawrence book Lady Chatterley's Lover

Source: Lady Chatterley's Lover

“They stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.”

D.H. Lawrence book Women in Love

Source: Women in Love

“He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.”

D.H. Lawrence book Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers (1913)

“Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.”

D.H. Lawrence

Sons and Lovers - Edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992