Quotes for English Learners
Quotes by
D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence
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D. H. Lawrence :
Being unconscious of freedom Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
D. H. Lawrence |
freedom
I dislike democracy The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
D. H. Lawrence |
politics
Judgement is never just The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. Lawrence |
anger
Liberty There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
D. H. Lawrence |
freedom
Like a perpetual funeral It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
D. H. Lawrence |
wisdom
Living her life A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
D. H. Lawrence |
men and women
Living mechanically But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence |
life
Living my life I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence |
life
Loving so easily My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence |
love
Making war because of peace People always make war when they say they love peace.
D. H. Lawrence |
war and peace
Men Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence |
fear
Most perfectly alive For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
D. H. Lawrence |
life
Our madness Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence |
money
The business of art The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
D. H. Lawrence |
art
The essential function of art The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
D. H. Lawrence |
art
The flower of life Love 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 |
love
The human consciousness The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
D. H. Lawrence |
death
Then a leap taken Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence |
life
Towards the other soul One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
D. H. Lawrence |
love
Track it home The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
D. H. Lawrence |
war and peace
Unsatisfied and loved woman A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. Lawrence |
men and women
We have got to live We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen
D. H. Lawrence |
life
What does a man do all his life There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
D. H. Lawrence |
life
With such hard knocks Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D. H. Lawrence |
freedom
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