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 More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence 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 hate men children Never trust the teller, trust the tale. D. H. Lawrence gossip never-trust trust 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 risk revenge men Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. D. H. Lawrence strong tragedy gold And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face. D. H. Lawrence melting faces hands I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself D. H. Lawrence self-pity saws sorry A book lives as long as it is unfathomed. D. H. Lawrence reading long book Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. D. H. Lawrence oxygen two science The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. D. H. Lawrence literature humanity writing No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. D. H. Lawrence women leadership men The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when we get it. Try the South Seas. D. H. Lawrence age sea past Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens. D. H. Lawrence be-careful difficult doors In my very own self, I am part of my family. D. H. Lawrence my-family self 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. D. H. Lawrence intelligent truth believe Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. D. H. Lawrence ethical-principles judging justice The history of the cosmos D. H. Lawrence struggle god dark The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase. D. H. Lawrence europe history interesting One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. D. H. Lawrence rushing motivation leadership One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors. D. H. Lawrence traitor sticks soul The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose. D. H. Lawrence change loss knowledge
