I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence The grim frost is at hand, when apples will fall thick, almost thunderous, on the hardened earth. D. H. Lawrence winterhandsfall I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate. D. H. Lawrence faterunninglove After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else. D. H. Lawrence readingbookart A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry. D. H. Lawrence depressionmenhands ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying. D. H. Lawrence wantdepressionworld That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. D. H. Lawrence magicpowerattention Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness. D. H. Lawrence swingschangeprofound I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house. D. H. Lawrence simplemenbelieve We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority. D. H. Lawrence generationshateliterature When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains. D. H. Lawrence bullyingleadershipmen The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. D. H. Lawrence dozensoulthinking Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. D. H. Lawrence swampsoceancities Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. D. H. Lawrence passionpurposeinspiration The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? D. H. Lawrence moonmenpast The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. D. H. Lawrence deitiesstudymen The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. D. H. Lawrence moralityartistliterature The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. D. H. Lawrence punishmentdangerousspiritual The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else. D. H. Lawrence marriageperfectmen The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit. D. H. Lawrence erasbodyhistory The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious. D. H. Lawrence changelawmoving
