Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image