Men Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

— D. H. Lawrence

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

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Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

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Man is a thought-adventurer.

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No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

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The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

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Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?… It's the courage of your own tenderness.

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The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

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I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of…

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The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

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Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned.…

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Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to…

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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a…

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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…

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Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

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The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is…

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Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self…

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I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in…

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The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So…

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It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within…

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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the…

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The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,…

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Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.…

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I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then…

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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the…

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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the…

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That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man…

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It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which…

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I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,…

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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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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

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Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

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

— D. H. Lawrence