# Quote — D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

> 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 habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

- Author: [D. H. Lawrence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence.md)
- Book: [Lady Chatterley's Lover](https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/D._H._Lawrence#Lady_Chatterley's_Lover_(1928)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover/ours-is-essentially

## More from this book

> And dimly she realized one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, which does not kill the body, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only appearance. It is really only the mechanism of the reassumed habit. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover/and-dimly-she.md)

> Folks should do their own fuckin', then they wouldn't want to listen to a lot of clatfart about another man's.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover/folks-should-do-their.md)

> Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/d-h-lawrence/lady-chatterleys-lover/money-poisons-you.md)