D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Fall Quotes

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

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The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

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I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

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The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication with the unknown God, which prompts within him.

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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

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America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

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For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

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The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the grail, and the journey is always towards the other soul, not away from it. . . . To love you have to learn to understand the other, more than she understands herself, and to submit to her understanding of you. It is damnably difficult and painful, but it is the only thing which endures.

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It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

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There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

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I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!

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We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

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What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

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[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other men. But his greatest and final relation is with the sun.

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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

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Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

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And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

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