I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?… It lies in the heart of man, and not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.” — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness… It is the consciousness of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling…… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable dissatisfaction? Not because we sinned.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What sex is, we don't know, but it must be some sort of fire. For it always communicates a sense of warmth,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo… — 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
