“If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The army leaves me time to think, and saves me from the battle of life.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“As the years drew on it was the fear of nothingness in her life that affected her.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For my part, life is so many things I don’t care what it is. It’s not my affair to sum it up.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I think,” said the Major, taking his pipe from his mouth, “that desire is the most wonderful thing in life. Anybody who… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, something to marvel over.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There was nothing now but this empty treadmill of what Clifford called the integrated life, the long living together of two people,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The last year of her college career was wheeling slowly round. She could see ahead her examination and her departure. She had… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Thought, I love thought. But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas I despise that self-important game. Thought is the… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places the flow of… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It's what endures through one's life that matters; my own life matters to me, in its long continuance and development. But what… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile you just lived on and there was nothing to it. She understood perfectly well why people had cocktail parties, and jazzed,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“To die is to move on with the invisible. To die is also a joy, a joy of submitting to that which… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When I want to move, I remember death, how it is ultimate and inevitable, and pure. Then I am free to move… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In the depths of him, he too didn't want to go. But he was a born American, and if anything was on… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“To be rid of our individuality, which is our will, which is our effort- to live effortless, a kind of conscious sleep-… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“How she hated words, always coming between her and her life: they did the ravishing, if anything did: ready-made words and phrases,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“If you could only tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing! But it's no good. If only they were… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“In the superficial activity of her life, she was all English. She even thought in English. But her long blanks and darkness… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“I WANT her though, to take the same from me. She touches me as if I were herself, her own. She has not realized… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“His body was urgent against her, and she didn't have the heart anymore to fight...She saw his eyes, tense and brilliant, fierce, not loving.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“If only you could tell them that living and spending isn't the same thing.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“Ce vreau eu sa stiu - ce ma nedumereste pe mine - este cum pot oamenii care traiesc in aceeasi tara, care vorbesc aceeasi… — D.h. Lawrence Copy Share
“Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy penis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say ‘shit!’ in front… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“Couldn't one go right away, to the far ends of the earth, and be free from it all? One could not. The far ends… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“Is there not the massive brilliant, out-flinging recklessness in the male soul, summed up in the sudden word: Andiamo! Andiamo! Let us go on.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“she would be free of mundane care, she was a pure will towards right. She had sold herself, but she had a new freedom.… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“Art has two great functions. First, it provides an emotional experience. And then, if we have the courage of our own feelings, it becomes… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“A new degree of anger came over him. What did it all matter? What did it matter if the mother talked Polish and cried… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
“But I will have it. I will love — it is my birthright. I will love the man I marry — that is all… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share
