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Love Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

71 Love quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence paints love as a lively, sea‑filled dance where even a dolphin can feel delight. He says the living moment is everything, so love lives in the now, not in distant plans. He also links love to wonder, claiming that both love and power grow from a sense of awe.

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I shall always be a priest of love.

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Love's a dog in a manger.

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No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

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It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

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In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

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The living moment is everything.

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Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

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You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

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What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

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Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

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What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

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The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

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When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

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

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Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

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

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Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all…

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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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Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock…

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The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because itis dual, because…

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“When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is…

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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love…

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I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of…

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Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned.…

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“The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men…

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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and…

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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, like any knight of the…

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The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is…

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Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the…

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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the…

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Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater…

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It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in…

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

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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock…

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You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

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

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You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

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I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

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Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is…

If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and…

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise…

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and…

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not…

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.…

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

The living moment is everything.

If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!