The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. D. H. Lawrence beloved perfect sleep Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. D. H. Lawrence being-in-love love-you men Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. D. H. Lawrence community men believe Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. D. H. Lawrence freedom literature people Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate. D. H. Lawrence bait drink culture People always make war when they say they love peace. D. H. Lawrence love war peace I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. D. H. Lawrence machines black mistake But having more freedom she only became more profoundly aware of the big want. She wanted so many things. She wanted to read great, beautiful books, and be rich with them; she wanted to see beautiful things, and have the joy of them for ever; she wanted to know big, free people; and there remained always the want she could put no name to? It was so difficult. There were so many things, so much to meet and surpass. And one never knew where one was going. D. H. Lawrence names beautiful book How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions. D. H. Lawrence obscene obsession ideas One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. D. H. Lawrence realising should-have feels Why does the thin grey strand D. H. Lawrence floating forgotten doe I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun. D. H. Lawrence bullets fun thinking Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. D. H. Lawrence sea wind children I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done. D. H. Lawrence tourists bombs thinking A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches D. H. Lawrence circles bridges air Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me. D. H. Lawrence sorrow land gold The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense. D. H. Lawrence sixth-sense sense-of-wonder wonder If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work. D. H. Lawrence hymns spiritual games The elephant, the huge old beast, D. H. Lawrence beast mates elephants America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to. D. H. Lawrence real spring america
