Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction D. H. Lawrence destruction too-much divine To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone. D. H. Lawrence flower struggle book The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. D. H. Lawrence judgement anger justice It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State. D. H. Lawrence mean children fall When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution. D. H. Lawrence substitution turns dust At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd. D. H. Lawrence healing dream past The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto. D. H. Lawrence being-yourself finals lasts Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe. D. H. Lawrence passing-away might men Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface. D. H. Lawrence pity ends self With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there. D. H. Lawrence sticks want men Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. D. H. Lawrence nymphs kissing nature You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. D. H. Lawrence positive love negative Along the avenue of cypresses, D. H. Lawrence cypresses black gold I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection. D. H. Lawrence australia perfection men Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; D. H. Lawrence rags bats sleep All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. D. H. Lawrence atheism memories reality Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. D. H. Lawrence falling-in-love done ifs It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines. D. H. Lawrence sardines tin hard I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense. D. H. Lawrence common-sense passion long You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? D. H. Lawrence soul simple blessed
