The Lost Girl Quotes

“Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“She came upon a bankside of lavender crocuses. The sun was on them for the moment, and they were opened flat, great five-pointed, seven-pointed lilac stars, with burning centres, burning with a strange lavender flame, as she had seen some metal burn lilac-flamed in the laboratory of the hospital at Islington. All down and oak-dry bankside they burned their great exposed stars. And she felt like going down on her knees and bending her forehead to the earth in an oriental submission, they were so royal, so lovely, so supreme. She came again to them in the morning, when the sky was grey, and they were closed, sharp clubs, wonderfully fragile on their stems of sap, among leaves and old grass and wild periwinkle. They had wonderful dark stripes running up their cheeks, the crocuses, like the clear proud stripes on a badger’s face, or on some proud cat. She took a handful of the sappy, shut, striped flames. In her room they opened into a grand bowl of lilac fire.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“But to a woman, failure is another matter. For her it means failure to live, failure to establish her own life on the face of the earth. And this is humiliating, the ultimate humiliation.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Every individual should, by nature, have his extraordinary points. But nowadays, you may look for them with a microscope, they are so worn-down by the regular machine-friction of our average and mechanical days.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Awful things men were, savage, cruel, underneath their civilization.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“For him, it was not yet quite natural to express himself in speech. Gesture and grimace were instantaneous, and spoke worlds of things, if you would but accept them.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Odd, eccentric people they were, these entertainers. Most of them had a streak of imagination, and most of them drank. Most of them were middle-aged. Most of them had an abstracted manner; in ordinary life, they seemed left aside, somehow. Odd, extraneous creatures, often a little depressed, feeling life slip away from them. The cinema was killing them.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Surely enough books have been written about heroines in similar circumstances. There is no need to go into the details of Alvina's six months in Islington.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes. You can't know beforehand.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl

“THE DECLINE OF MANCHESTER HOUSE Take a mining townlet like Woodhouse, with a population of ten thousand people, and three generations behind it. This space of three generations argues a certain well-established society. The old “County” has fled from the sight of so much disembowelled coal, to flourish on mineral rights in regions still idyllic.”
― D.H. Lawrence, The Lost Girl