The Plumed Serpent Quotes

“I have realized that my will, no matter how intelligent I am, is only another nuisance on the face of the earth, once I start exerting it. And other people's wills are even worse.”
― D H Lawrence

“Men today were half-made, and women were half-made. Creatures that existed and functioned with certain regularity, but which ran off into a hopeless jumble of inconsequence.
Half-made, like insects that can run fast and be so busy and suddenly grow wings, but which are only winged grubs after all. A world of half-made creatures on two legs, eating food and degrading the one mystery left to them, sex. Spinning a great lot of words, burying themselves inside the cocoons of words and ideas that they spin round themselves, and inside the cocoons, mostly perishing inert and overwhelmed.”
― D H Lawrence

“The final mystery is one mystery. But the manifestations are many.”
― D H Lawrence

“Man is a column of blood, with a voice in it, he said. And when the voice is still, and he is only a column of blood, he is better.”
― D H Lawrence

“Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines.”
― D H Lawrence

“Now, must she admit that he individual was an illusion and a falsification? There was no such animal. Except in the mechanical world. In the world of machines, the individual machine is effectual. The individual, like the perfect being, does not and cannot exist, in the vivid world. We are all fragments. And at the best, halves. The only whole thing is the Morning Star. Which can only rise between two: or between many.”
― D H Lawrence