Beauty Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

18 Beauty quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence’s work pulses with raw feeling, and here eighteen statements lay bare his belief that beauty is both a physical force and an emotional fire, inviting readers to feel rather than just think.

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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

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The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

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The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

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Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

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Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a…

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Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's…

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

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I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration…

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When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

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The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,…

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

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Ah, then, upon my bedroom I do draw The blind to hide the garden, where the moon Enjoys the open blossoms as…

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The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the…

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It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in…

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What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth,…

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“Then he clambered into the boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he…

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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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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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