Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox! D. H. Lawrence cuttingtakenmen Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. D. H. Lawrence human-beingshumans 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 momstrongmother 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 marriagewisdomlove-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 hearingefforteye Men! The only animal in the world to fear. D. H. Lawrence animalmenworld 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-lessonmistaketwo 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 richluckymay Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. D. H. Lawrence propagandaliteraturewar 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 onenessspacescience Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. D. H. Lawrence sexysensualsex 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 visionaliveart 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 educatechildrenfirsts 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 selfgamespeople What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another. D. H. Lawrence laughtergeniusmen 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 depthsoulblood You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. D. H. Lawrence thrilllive-byends 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 selfspringbird When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. D. H. Lawrence over-the-edgelandinspirational 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 democracylightwater
