Alive Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

11 Alive quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence’s prose often throbs with raw feeling. These eleven passages explore the fierce, sometimes turbulent, energy that drives us to truly experience life.

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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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The picture must all come out of the artist's inside, awareness of forms and figures... It is more than memory. It is…

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We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

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We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

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The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a…

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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…

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But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been…

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One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water-…

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My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up…

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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing…

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For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is…

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is…

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If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…

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Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

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Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

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The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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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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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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The living moment is everything.

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If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

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