“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
More from D.H. Lawrence on Life
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.”
“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”
“Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.”
“Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.”
“While we live let us live.”
“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.”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
Others on Life
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
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Lord Byron
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Virginia Woolf
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Joseph Campbell
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Paulo Coelho
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Margaret Atwood
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