Life Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The living moment is everything.

— D. H. Lawrence

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

— D. H. Lawrence

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

— D. H. Lawrence

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

— D. H. Lawrence

The # cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

— D. H. Lawrence

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

— D. H. Lawrence

Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

— D. H. Lawrence

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

— D. H. Lawrence

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

— D. H. Lawrence

Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our…

— D. H. Lawrence

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life…

— D. H. Lawrence

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has…

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If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy…

— D. H. Lawrence

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is…

— D. H. Lawrence

The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the…

— D. H. Lawrence

Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the…

— D. H. Lawrence

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his…

— D. H. Lawrence

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so…

— D. H. Lawrence

We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as…

— D. H. Lawrence

“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of…

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America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Oh - one would feel things instead of merely looking at them. I should feel the air move against me, and feel…

— D. H. Lawrence

To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,…

— D. H. Lawrence

“Then he clambered into the boat. Oh, and the beauty of the subjection of his loins, white and dimly luminous as he…

— D. H. Lawrence

Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the…

— D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

— D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

— D. H. Lawrence

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

— D. H. Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

— D. H. Lawrence

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd…

— D. H. Lawrence

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

— D. H. Lawrence

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that…

— D. H. Lawrence

Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

— D. H. Lawrence

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit…

— D. H. Lawrence

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

— D. H. Lawrence

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

— D. H. Lawrence

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

— D. H. Lawrence

In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic…

— D. H. Lawrence