[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A man will part with anything so long as he's drunk, and you're drunk with him. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
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… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
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. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
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! — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share