T.E. Lawrence Quotes

Then, as now, archaelogists and writers ventured where others feared to tread.

... history - the lamp which illumines national character...

For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone.Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

Humans must experience suffering in order to comprehend the importance of their existence. -- Masaaki Hisakawa (Chapter 4)

That, I decided, was what it meant to be a slave: your past didn't matter, in the present you were invisible and you had no claim on the future.

Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.

The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dead leaves gleam brown, and water sounds hoarse in the ravines.

When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)

Men who are certain of everything - well perhaps they are not men at all.

When you become a father, it changes you." Snorri spoke towards the fire’s glow. "You see the world in new ways. Those who are not changed were not properly men to begin with.

Out here you need to live in the moments. Watch the world. You're a young man, Jal, a child who's refused to grow up. Do it now, or you'll die a young man.

In these last days, what the world really needs is courageous parenting from mothers and fathers who are not afraid to speak up and take a stand.

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God, but because she too passionately wanted to be united with him! All things in excess become sin.

What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.

It is not often that you see life and fiction take each other by the hand and dance.

You look like shit.” “Thanks. I look way better than I feel.

To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.

Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.

Mama is beautiful, ” I said.“Mama is strong, ” he said. “Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

Men who’ve made choices always feel they own their destiny. Few ever think to ask who shaped and offered up those choices. Who dangles the carrot they think they’ve chosen to follow.

Sweep my dreams not beneath my feet. Be somewhere that my steps won't meet. Breaking the broom isn't a must. Don't mistake unmoved dreams for dust

And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.

More often than you might think, teaching science is inseparable from teaching doubt.

The door closed and darkness claimed the room.

It doesn't pay to trust a lettered man in the road, Brothers, their heads are full of other man's ideas.

To err is human, to forgive is divine... but I’m only a cardinal and cardinals are human, so rather than forgiving you I’m going to err towards beating you with this stick.

You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

He celebrated his solitude with a frown.

The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.

Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.

There are no other choices for you, Prince Jalan, and when there are no choices all men are equally brave.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

It was at Long Huruk that we encountered the vortex of the dream time of which we had so far only touched the periphery, for this was the semi-nomadic community of mystics and dream wanderers.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to be.

The past is fractal premonition, infinite to the eye but nothing to be built on . . .

The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.

I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state, our true nature is constant love, unending love, giving love.

My heart is an empty refrigerator.

Things are not as they appear.

You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.

Shut up, you fool...Really. I’m running out of things to throw at you.

Keep rechewing. Like a cow. Use all your creative stomachs.

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.

I have done so many things in my life, " she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.