D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
people lovely language
When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
soul wonder my-soul
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.
sea mackerel mass
There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
autumn spirit feels
It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.
mean our-society idiot
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
civilization giving spending
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
mom strong rain
She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.
inspiring beautiful animal
Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
inspirational unseen consciousness
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
men feet giving
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
fighting love-is laughing
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
philosophy women repent
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
looks helping minority-report
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
children hate men
But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.