Quote

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

D. H. Lawrence

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

D. H. Lawrence
Age: 45 †
Born: 1885
Born: January 1
Died: 1930
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Novelist
Painter
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Eastwood
Nottinghamshire
David Herbert Lawrence
Lawrence H. Davison
D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lorenss
D. G. Lourens
David Herbert Richards Lawrence
D. H. David Herbert Lawrence
Negative
Aren
Eternal
Abnormal
Positive
Shortage
Loved
Absorb
Must
Craving
Love
Fill
Somewhere

More quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Image
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
While we live, let us live.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
D. H. Lawrence
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 themselves an exit from themselves.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.
D. H. Lawrence
Image
The mind has no existence by itself it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.
D. H. Lawrence