D. H. Lawrence Quotes

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D. H. Lawrence

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 11, 1885

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

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People always make war when they say they love peace.

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

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