If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you… — 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
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by invisible blows, The rock will split,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that… — 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
The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if… — 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
There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks… — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
