D. H. Lawrence

God is only a great imaginative experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

— D. H. Lawrence

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

— D. H. Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.

— D. H. Lawrence

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.

— D. H. Lawrence

The living moment is everything.

— D. H. Lawrence

God doesn't know things. He is things.

— D. H. Lawrence

“They were so intimate and utterly out of touch.”

— D. H. Lawrence

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?… It's the courage of your own tenderness.

— D. H. Lawrence

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

— D. H. Lawrence

“And they fear nothing, and they respect nothing, the young don't.”

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The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked…

— D. H. Lawrence

Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm…

— D. H. Lawrence

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . .…

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Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,…

— D. H. Lawrence

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere - a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence 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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must…

— D. H. Lawrence

There is the unknown and the unknowable which propounds all creation. This we cannot love , we can only accept it as…

— 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

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their…

— 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,…

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That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man…

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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…

— D. H. Lawrence

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

We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like…

— D. H. Lawrence

I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth…

— 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