D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Liberty Quotes, Individual Quotes

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Liberty Quotes , Individual Quotes

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Passion Quotes

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Rest Of Life Quotes , Literature Quotes

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Children Quotes , Fall Quotes

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Self Quotes , May Quotes

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Up Quotes

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Being Yourself Quotes , Being Single Quotes

You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Vitality Quotes , Goes On Quotes

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Art Quotes , Men Quotes

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Children Quotes , Fate Quotes

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Liberty Quotes , Individual Quotes

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Equality Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Life Quotes , Rain Quotes

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Change Quotes , Work Quotes

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Best Effort Quotes

We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and soon it will rise on the world, on the outside world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Death Quotes , Dying Quotes

We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Christian Quotes , Jesus Quotes

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Feelings Quotes

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Sea Quotes

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Religious Quotes , Wonder Quotes