“It all had to be squeezed and squeezed again, to provide a thrill, to provide enjoyment. What did people mean, with their… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“She rose slowly. She didn't want to go. She also rather resented staying.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She felt weak and utterly forlorn. She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And how they take one in, with their manners and their mock wistfulness and gentleness.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He had reached the point where all he wanted on earth was to be alone.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Destroy! destroy! destroy! hums the under-consciousness. Love and produce! Love and produce! cackles the upper consciousness. And the world hears only the… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“And he could go on in life, existing from day to day, without connection and without hope. For he did not know… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Little gusts of sunshine blew, strangely bright, and lit up the celandines at the wood's edge, under the hazel-rods, they spangled out… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I'd rather be at Wragby, where I can go about and be still, and not stare at anything or do any performing… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience.” — David Herbert Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The fractured self is not something that needs to be rectified fixed and made whole; by freeing thought of the blinkers of… — Ria Banerjee 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
“But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly insane beast.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“He went down again into the darkness and seclusion of the wood. But he knew that the seclusion of the wood was… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Far be it from me to suggest that all women should go running after gamekeepers for lovers.” — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image