D.H. Lawrence: Quotes about the world

“Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.”

“Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.”

“Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”

“That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”

“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.”

“One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”

“Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.”

“It was in 1915 the old world ended.”

“California is a queer place — in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”

“Men! The only animal in the world to fear!”

“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.”