Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Quote by DH Lawrence

Topics: Necessity Quotes

Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings...

Not every book should be a compass. Some should be a pair of wax wings...

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle....

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle....

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit...

Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit...

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up,...

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality--same stuff, same make up,...

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere...

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

I am in love - and, my God, it's the greatest thing that can happen...

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it...

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it...

I would have loved it - without the French

I would have loved it - without the French

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

It's all this cold-hearted fucking that is death and idiocy.

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and...

In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and...

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as...

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as...

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being...

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being...

And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come...

And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come...

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding...

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

One sheds one's sicknesses in books--repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of...

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

When soul has no value, business has no soul.

When soul has no value, business has no soul.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark...

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark...

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, I am not a...

Just when you think there's nothing to write about, Nixon says, I am not a...