01UndatedWhen we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
02UndatedAnd yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
03UndatedOh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
04UndatedSleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
05UndatedNobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste than Herman Melville.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
06UndatedAnd Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal.Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
07UndatedSometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent cloud-edges.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
08UndatedShe turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like a transparent jewel to its light. She stood filled with the full moon, offering herself. Her two breasts opened to make way for it, her body opened wide like a quivering anemone, a soft, dilated invitation touched by the moon.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
09UndatedGods 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
11UndatedAnd that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
12UndatedThey stood together in a false intimacy, a nervous contact. And he was in love with her.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
13UndatedThe last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had the ash of disillusion gritting under her teeth. Would the next move turn out the same? Always the shining doorway ahead; and then, upon approach, always the shining doorway was a gate into another ugly yard, dirty and active and dead. Always the crest of the hill gleaming ahead under heaven: and then, from the top of the hill only another sordid valley full of amorphous, squalid activity.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
14UndatedIt's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and fathomless spite. Always has been so! Look at Socrates, in Plato, and his bunch round him! The sheer spite of it all, just sheer joy in pulling somebody else to bits...Protagoras, or whoever it was! And Alcibiades, and all the other little disciple dogs joining in the fray! I must say it makes one prefer Buddha, quietly sitting under a bo-tree, or Jesus, telling his disciples little Sunday stories, peacefully, and without any mental fireworks. No, there's something wrong with the mental life, radically. It's rooted in spite and envy, envy and spite. Ye shall know the tree by its fruit.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
15UndatedShe, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anything. Time being, after all, only the current of the soul in its flow.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
16UndatedIt was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned exchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
17UndatedThe novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
18UndatedYou have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
19UndatedArt-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
20UndatedLove is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
21UndatedIn the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come home again. And then where are you? No the two sovereign remedies for dullness are love or a crusade.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
22UndatedThe great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
23UndatedThe young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort of voice and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
24UndatedBe still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
