Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. D. H. Lawrence human-beings humans She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us. D. H. Lawrence mom strong mother Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any. D. H. Lawrence marriage wisdom love-you She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes. D. H. Lawrence hearing effort eye Men! The only animal in the world to fear. D. H. Lawrence animal men world If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. D. H. Lawrence life-lesson mistake two It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money. D. H. Lawrence rich lucky may Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. D. H. Lawrence propaganda literature war One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity. D. H. Lawrence oneness space science Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. D. H. Lawrence sexy sensual sex The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is the image as it lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown. D. H. Lawrence vision alive art How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning. D. H. Lawrence educate children firsts When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people. D. H. Lawrence self games people What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. D. H. Lawrence laughter genius men My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos. D. H. Lawrence depth soul blood You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. D. H. Lawrence thrill live-by ends The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre. D. H. Lawrence self spring bird When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. D. H. Lawrence over-the-edge land inspirational The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. D. H. Lawrence democracy light water 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
