I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Man is a thought-adventurer. D. H. Lawrence thoughtfulmenthinking Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. D. H. Lawrence horsesouldark How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed. D. H. Lawrence futureflowerstrong There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder. D. H. Lawrence religiousnaturalwonder Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. D. H. Lawrence alivecitiestree 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. D. H. Lawrence starsmorningmen They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. D. H. Lawrence philosophicalmattermen The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment. D. H. Lawrence relationmenart When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language. D. H. Lawrence lovelylanguagepeople Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man. D. H. Lawrence petdogmen I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me. D. H. Lawrence carstatesstones We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last. D. H. Lawrence sunsetfirewater How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. D. H. Lawrence literatureexpressionbeautiful They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent. D. H. Lawrence agingseablood Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. D. H. Lawrence societypurposereal Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. D. H. Lawrence oblivionchangemade And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all. D. H. Lawrence hopelessnesshopelessreflection What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time! D. H. Lawrence wingstime The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. D. H. Lawrence sensualliteraturejustice The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action. D. H. Lawrence adventurementravel
