"Sons and Lovers" Quotes
A young man navigates complex relationships with his mother and multiple lovers, as he grapples with finding his own identity.
classics | 530 pages | Published in 1998
Quotes
She had a soul like a violin with strings broke-growing blacker and more woeful, but still with music in it.
What a man wants most in his wife, if he has any manhood, is not fire and brilliance, but the warm, palpitating, womanly sort of heart.
There is no life till you change your life!
The mother's heart was full of love for her children, but she could never forget her husband's ineffectualness, which broke her own strength.
It was a battle of unknown passions, unlike life's common ones.
Passion is a quantity that has no existence.
To enjoy, to feed, to wrap over with darkness, to drink delight slowly, and to swallow it.
The mind, the passion, tearing the heart, driving it to insanity.
She couldn't be bothered with them really. She only wanted a connection. A physical passion. She would give romance, but you must give passion.
You might be either the divine spark or the human brute.
