The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Another head - and a black alpaca jacket and a serviette this time - to tell us coffee is ready. Not before… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. — 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
How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The past. The Golden Age of the past. What a nostalgia we all feel for it. Yet we don't want it when… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All this Americanising and mechanising has been for the purpose of overthrowing the past. And now look at America, tangled in her… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — 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
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are… — 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
