Death Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

18 Death quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Lawrence never shies away from the starkness of life's final curtain, and these eighteen excerpts lay bare his unflinching honesty. Dive in for a raw, emotionally charged look at how he confronts the ultimate closure.

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In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

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Only youth has a taste of immortality.

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Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

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O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls…

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Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

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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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I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd…

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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that…

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The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

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One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life…

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We are dying, we are dying, we are all of us dying and nothing will stay the death-flood rising within us and…

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“I believe in being warm-hearted. I believe especially in being warm-hearted in love, in fucking with a warm heart. I believe if…

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We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in…

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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…

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Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore…

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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life…

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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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