Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it. D. H. Lawrence intricacy ghastly world For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. D. H. Lawrence broken-heart dawn love When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness. D. H. Lawrence equality differences unique Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law. D. H. Lawrence creative law forever But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them. D. H. Lawrence parent real feelings When science starts to be interpretive D. H. Lawrence mysticism accounts science A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it. D. H. Lawrence repent women philosophy To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness. D. H. Lawrence self discovery years My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. D. H. Lawrence blessed philosophy mean A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone. D. H. Lawrence would-be air littles Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. D. H. Lawrence tourism travel moving I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. D. H. Lawrence spiteful sneezing writing It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. D. H. Lawrence heart hands religion That she bear children is not a woman's significance. D. H. Lawrence fate bears children The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. D. H. Lawrence positive inspirational life The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble. D. H. Lawrence alive men book I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. D. H. Lawrence dream inspirational life The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. D. H. Lawrence cosmos astrology body If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night D. H. Lawrence wine dream night The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action. D. H. Lawrence horse movement inspiration
