What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence 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 But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them. D. H. Lawrence alive men hands The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence. D. H. Lawrence silence light darkness Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts. D. H. Lawrence totems instinct animal Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they were, or what they were. Like men in a dark room, they only felt their existence surging in the darkness of other creatures. We, however, have learned to see ourselves for what we are, as the sun sees us. The Kodak bears witness. D. H. Lawrence egypt dark men The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. D. H. Lawrence literature christian men Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere. D. H. Lawrence soul self mother How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil. D. H. Lawrence nice hate attitude They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. D. H. Lawrence fate genius mother Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on. D. H. Lawrence drug alcohol hands I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. D. H. Lawrence air water men Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas. D. H. Lawrence hate feelings ideas In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country. D. H. Lawrence friends sympathy country Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men. D. H. Lawrence weak-man men people Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. D. H. Lawrence tales literature men It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh. D. H. Lawrence men father son The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent. D. H. Lawrence white-man men america I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death. D. H. Lawrence black war death There is no evolving, only unfolding. The lily is in the bit of dust which is its beginning, lily and nothing but lily: and the lily in blossom is a ne plus ultra: there is no evolving beyond. D. H. Lawrence lilies evolution dust We are so conceited and so unproud. D. H. Lawrence conceited pride humility
