WIST Quotations

Lawrence, D. H. -- “Education of the People,” Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine (1925)

Dave — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 14:16:10 +0000

What is wrong then? The system. But when you’ve said that you’ve said nothing. The system, after all, is only the outcome of the human psyche, the human desires. We shout and blame the machine. But who on earth makes the machine, if we don’t? And any alterations in the system are only modifications in the machine. The system is in us, it is not something external to us. The machine is in us, or it would never come out of us. Well then, there’s nothing to blame but ourselves, and there’s nothing to change except inside ourselves.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
“Education of the People,” Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine (1925)

Lawrence, D. H. -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
(Attributed)

Lawrence, D. H. -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
(Attributed)

Lawrence, D. H. -- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, ch. 19 [Mellors] (1928)

Dave — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:04:52 +0000

Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, ch. 19 [Mellors] (1928)
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Lawrence, D. H. -- Sons and Lovers, Part 2, ch. 7 “Lad-and-Girl Love” (1913)

Dave — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:26:24 +0000

They continued to mount the winding staircase. A high wind, blowing through the loopholes, went rushing up the shaft, and filled the girl’s skirts like a balloon, so that she was ashamed, until he took the hem of her dress and held it down for her. He did it perfectly simply, as he would have picked up her glove. She remembered this always.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
Sons and Lovers, Part 2, ch. 7 “Lad-and-Girl Love” (1913)
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Lawrence, D. H. -- Studies in Classic American Literature, ch. 2 (1923)

Dave — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:04:03 +0000

We are only the actors, we are never wholly the authors of our own deeds or works. It is the author, the unknown inside us or outside us. The best we can do is try to hold ourselves in unison with deeps which are inside us.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
Studies in Classic American Literature, ch. 2 (1923)

Lawrence, D. H. -- Studies in Classic American Literature, ch. 8 (1923)

Dave — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:29:36 +0000

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

David Herbert "D. H." Lawrence (1885-1930) English novelist
Studies in Classic American Literature, ch. 8 (1923)