Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up? D. H. Lawrence inspiringanimalbeautiful What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen. D. H. Lawrence cosmosconnectionsearth Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. D. H. Lawrence literaturepositivelife When I went to the scientific doctor D. H. Lawrence doctorslustmorning For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. D. H. Lawrence flowermenlife Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life. D. H. Lawrence fightinglove-islaughing We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time. D. H. Lawrence jewelsprofoundbook The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. D. H. Lawrence educatedemotionalmen I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water. D. H. Lawrence eyeseablood You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind. D. H. Lawrence hard-workmothermen Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent. D. H. Lawrence dogmenlooks I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my throat. A man has to have a gizzard like an ostrich to digest all the brass-tacks and wire nails of modern art theories. D. H. Lawrence ostrichesmenart What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. D. H. Lawrence instinctintuitiondesire Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving. D. H. Lawrence selfinspirationalmen The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further. D. H. Lawrence endshappinessfall It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. D. H. Lawrence filled-inlonelinesswaiting And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created. D. H. Lawrence flowermorningpeace Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it! D. H. Lawrence moneydoneplay 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 farcetragedygiving The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. D. H. Lawrence lovelifesex
