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
women thinking giving
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.
men thinking thoughtful
Man is a thought-adventurer.
thinking soul dozen
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
cheer thinking orange
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred orange and scrub the floor.
men thinking animal
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
emotional thinking soul
When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.
thinking america perfection
I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.
fun thinking bullets
I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.
thinking bombs done
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
sex thinking society
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.
mean thinking care
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
cannot care cure english-writer follies mean taste thinking woeful
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
noise outside secret sensitive
Is it the secret of the long-nosed Etruscans?/ The long-nosed, sensitive footed, subtly-smiling Etruscans, / Who made so little noise outside the cypress groves?
alone capable people perhaps
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.