You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits? D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a Cinematograph working brightly; then I'd go out in the back streets and main streets and bring them in, all the sick, the halt, and the maimed; I would lead them gently, and they would smile me a weary thanks; and the band would softly bubble out the 'Hallelujah Chorus'. D. H. Lawrence bandsickmilitary The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience. D. H. Lawrence new-experiencesrealfear All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity. D. H. Lawrence romantic-lovesleeppast And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons. D. H. Lawrence butterflyflowerwings 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. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. D. H. Lawrence familyeyerace Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. D. H. Lawrence angelsides I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. D. H. Lawrence luckliteraturewant I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. D. H. Lawrence lonelyresponsibilitychildren Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. D. H. Lawrence hintslovelysleep The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. D. H. Lawrence sphinxdecreemarriage Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. D. H. Lawrence moralitysoulwisdom Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will. D. H. Lawrence redlandnative-american And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly. D. H. Lawrence broken-heartwallbreak-out The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness. D. H. Lawrence aristocracynovelistspoetry To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them. D. H. Lawrence our-worldfirescience One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. D. H. Lawrence emotionreadingbook A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there. D. H. Lawrence snakeshotwater If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. D. H. Lawrence smellpsychologycutting We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life. D. H. Lawrence darkrainlife Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end. D. H. Lawrence motherdreamlying
