D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Civilization Quotes, Knowing Quotes

So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

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Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

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Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

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Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

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The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

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Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.

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At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats By the Ponte Vecchio . . . Changing guard.

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

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Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.

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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.

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Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

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