Sea and Sardinia Quotes

“Messina between the volcanoes, Etna and Stromboli, having known the death-agony's terror. I always dread coming near the awful place, yet I have found the people kind, almost feverishly so, as if they knew the awful need for kindness.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

“Lemon trees, like Italians, seem to be happiest when they are touching one another”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

“One realises, with horror, that the race of men is almost extinct in Europe. Only Christ-like heroes and woman-worshipping Don Juans, and rabid equality-mongrels. The old, hardy, indomitable male is gone. His fierce singleness is quenched. The last sparks are dying out in Sardinia and Spain. Nothing left but the herd-proletariat and the herd-equality mongrelism, and the wistful poisonous self-sacrificial cultured soul. How detestable”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

“Si dice che nè i romani nè i fenici, i greci o gli arabi abbiano mai sottomesso la Sardegna. È fuori; fuori dal circuito della civiltà.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

“Bread means a great deal to an Italian: it is verily his staff of life.”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia

“Is there not the massive brilliant, out-flinging recklessness in the male soul, summed up in the sudden word: Andiamo! Andiamo! Let us go on. Andiamo!—let us go hell knows where, but let us go on. The splendid recklessness and passion that knows no precept and no school-teacher, whose very molten spontaneity is its own guide”
― D.H. Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia