T.E. Lawrence Quotes

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.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with?My own imaginings?

Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.", November 1913)

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

...You mistake other people’s success as your own failure...

The day we put an end to believing in hope will be the day we stop existing, for without hope, we are nothing.

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!

There was a time when our desire for each other would have landed us in an asylum or prison, had it not been sanctioned by mutual assent. True or false.

Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened

you roll me out flat

No man should go to Valhalla with brothel rash.

Death was kind.” He drew a sharp breath. “But no father should have to give such a kindness to his child.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

I am awaitingperpetually and forevera renaissance of wonder

The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.

Some are professors and others are possessors.

I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.

The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it

My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

You get to take what this world gives you.

Embrace the fact that we are human. We are flawed, we aren’t invincible, but we are resilient, and we are alive. So we need to live as such

Time and space are awash here.

At last, the clock settled in the right place.

They waited and watched, while the clocks seemed to resist time.

Within her simple, terrified mind, swift calculations of distance and speed were at work, and her face advertised the disappointing results.

If you're too open-minded your brains will fall out.

I just wrote a book. But don't go and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished.

Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them

One sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

We can’t be trapped by fear. Lives lived within such walls are just slower deaths.

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that’s gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.

Our common humanity, viewed realistically, can be as much a source of despair as hope.

If you think you are easily irritated by people, guess what? You irritate other people easily too!

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

That's my secret and my shame. I'm Nona Grey, war is in my veins, and the screams of my enemies are music to me.

I had chosen freedom, with all its insecurities, and nothing in the world would make me turn away from it.

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman.

When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.

Maybe that’s why God made childbirth so painful, so that when your life is wrecked by children you know it could be worse.

Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye'dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

Great persons, like great empires, leave their mark on history.