"It ought to be lovely to be old,……" — DH Lawrence
"It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment"
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25 Quotes by DH Lawrence
DH Lawrence has 25 quotes on this site.
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I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell…
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I would have loved it - without the French
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Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book…
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It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman.…
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For what is the beloved? She is that which I myself am not. In the act of love, I am…
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In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble.…
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It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.
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And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood…
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Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet…
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I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts…
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I used to think a good book was the best company, but now Ive thought better.
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Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings to soar and escape, if…
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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