Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his…

A man who is acutely aware of having something to lose which he has learned to care for; a man in some degree rich…

— Anonymous

“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their simply determined…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the Love-and- produce…

— D.H. Lawrence

“But you don't fuck me cold-heartedly,' she protested. 'I don't want to fuck you at all.' Lady Chatterly's Lover”

— D.H. Lawrence

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every…

— D.H. Lawrence

“He would be alone, and apart from life, which was all he wanted.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no real control!”

— D.H. Lawrence

“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know what to…

— D.H. Lawrence