T.E. Lawrence Quotes
Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges or scrub the floor.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
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.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.
I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
Revenge is a business of calculation, best served cold. Rescue holds more of sacrifice, suicidal danger, and all manner of other madness that should have me running in the opposite direction.
Overregulation corrupts citizens and weakens the rule of law.
That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.
I am not too worried about the many changes in today's society, but I am rather overly concerned about societies refusal to change from it destructive path!
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.
Keep still and your troubles find you. I might not have known much about the unborn, but I sure as hell knew about running!
