Quotes about Struggle
There's a bad time coming, boys, there's a bad time coming! If things go on as they are, there's nothing lies in the future but death and destruction, for these industrial masses.
— DH Lawrence
It seethes and seethes, a river of darkness, putting forth lilies and snakes
— DH Lawrence
She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help.
— DH Lawrence
She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.
— DH Lawrence
Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers
— DH Lawrence
In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.
— DH Lawrence
He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.
— DH Lawrence
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes.
— DH Lawrence
Yet there she stood under the self-accusation of wanting him, tied to that stake of torture.
— DH Lawrence
But beneath the populace of pleasure lay the populace of work, grim, grimy, and rather terrible.
— DH Lawrence
When Clifford became really roused in his feelings about the common people, Connie was frightened. There was something devastatingly true in what he said. But it was a truth that killed.
— DH Lawrence
Because, after all, like so many modern men, he was finished almost before he had begun. And that forced the woman to be active.
— DH Lawrence