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 If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail. D. H. Lawrence nails get-up trying Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. D. H. Lawrence dust change fall So slowly the hot elephant hearts D. H. Lawrence elephants fire heart I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from. D. H. Lawrence plans knows writing The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband. D. H. Lawrence unhappiness wife husband One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures. D. H. Lawrence knights journey love-you You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you. D. H. Lawrence atmosphere australia sky When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill. D. H. Lawrence rich ill wish All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. D. H. Lawrence atheism knowing laughing At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats D. H. Lawrence wavering bats way She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. D. H. Lawrence belonging cruelty long Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. D. H. Lawrence neurosis causes insanity Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness. D. H. Lawrence courage sympathy men I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes. D. H. Lawrence happy happiness believe There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort. D. H. Lawrence apples space sex For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done. D. H. Lawrence done sake mean The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles. D. H. Lawrence egypt wisdom science I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame. D. H. Lawrence flames wisdom bible The glamour D. H. Lawrence remembrance maturity music Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; D. H. Lawrence music mother children
