Zitate von David Herbert Lawrence

„Kunst ist die Technik der Gefühlsmanipulierung im Verhältnis zur Wirklichkeit.“

„Unser Zeitalter ist seinem Wesen nach tragisch, also weigern wir uns, es tragisch zu nehmen. Die Katastrophe ist hereingebrochen, wir stehen vor den Trümmern, wir fangen an, neue kleine Gewohnheiten zu bilden, neue kleine Hoffnungen zu hegen. Es ist ein hartes Stück Arbeit: Kein ebener Weg führt in die Zukunft; wir umgehen die Hindernisse jedoch oder klettern über sie hinweg. Wir müssen leben – einerlei, wie viele Himmel eingestürzt sind.“

in: Ch. Caudwell, Studien zu einer sterbenden Kultur

— David Herbert Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley, Kapitel 1
Original engl.: "Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." - Lady Chatterley's Lover.

„Geld vergiftet einen, wenn man es hat, und läßt einen verhungern, wenn man es nicht hat.“

„Ich habe noch nie ein wildes Tier gesehen, das sich bemitleidet hat.“

„Ich persönlich bevorzuge mein Herz, wenn es gebrochen ist. Es ist so wunderschön, morgendämmerungskaleidoskopisch in dem Riss.“

„Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.“

„I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

„I never saw a wild thing
Sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.“

Apocalypse (1930)
Kontext: What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man wants his physical fulfillment first and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human soul, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family. There is nothing of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

„Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.“

Self-Pity (1929)
Quelle: The Complete Poems

„A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.“

„There's lots of good fish in the sea… maybe… but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Quelle: Lady Chatterley's Lover

„I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Quelle: Lady Chatterley's Lover

„He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Women in Love

Quelle: Women in Love

„We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Sons and Lovers

Quelle: Sons and Lovers

„For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Quelle: Lady Chatterley's Lover

„I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself“

„Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.“

„The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Quelle: Lady Chatterley's Lover

„Censors are dead men
set up to judge between life and death.“

— D.H. Lawrence, buch Lady Chatterley

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)
Kontext: The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.