Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel J. Boorstin

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.

D. B. Weiss

We will not be recasting J.J. Murphy. He was a lovely man, and the best Denys Mallister we could have hoped for. And now his watch is ended.

D. Elton Trueblood

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...

D. Elton Trueblood

If the average church should suddenly take seriously the notion that every lay member man or woman is really a minister of Christ, we could have something like a revolution in a very short time.

D. Elton Trueblood

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.

D. Elton Trueblood

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

Czeslaw Milosz

Only a white-haired old man, who would be a prophet Yet is not a prophet, for he's much too busy, Repeats while he binds his tomatoes: No other end of the world will there be, No other end of the world will there be.

Czeslaw Milosz

Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to.

Czeslaw Milosz

The true enemy of man is generalization.

D. H. Lawrence

A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him.

D. H. Lawrence

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.

D. H. Lawrence

A man must keep his earnestness nimble, to escape ridicule.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

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

Man is a thought-adventurer.

D. H. Lawrence

The source of all life and knowledge is in #‎ man and #‎ woman , and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

D. H. Lawrence

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

D. H. Lawrence

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

D. H. Lawrence

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

D. H. Lawrence

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

D. H. Lawrence

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

D. H. Lawrence

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

D. H. Lawrence

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

D. H. Lawrence

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D. H. Lawrence

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

D. H. Lawrence

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.