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Heart Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

18 Heart quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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If you’re drawn to the raw, almost primal emotions that pulse through literature, this set of 18 verses from D. H. Lawrence offers a direct line to the core of desire and vulnerability. Each line feels like a breath, inviting you to feel rather than just read.

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock…

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Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?… It lies in the heart of man, and not…

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“She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other.”

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“But then he didn't want to remember, because she had been nothing to him then, and his nature revolted from remembering her…

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

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“She, herself, was so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.”

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She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

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So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

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I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let…

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“...she was walking along the bottom-most bed--she was quite safe: quite safe, if she had to go on and on for ever,…

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The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run…

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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…

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“She did not look her best: so thin, so large-nosed, with that pink-and-white checked duster tied round her head. She felt her…

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And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must…

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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into…

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Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife…

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There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could…

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock…

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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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