Inspirational Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

— D. H. Lawrence

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

— D. H. Lawrence

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

— D. H. Lawrence

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

— D. H. Lawrence

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

— D. H. Lawrence

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

— D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

— D. H. Lawrence

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

— D. H. Lawrence

The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

— D. H. Lawrence

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

— D. H. Lawrence

It's autumn ... and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

— D. H. Lawrence

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

— D. H. Lawrence

When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism.

— D. H. Lawrence

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

— D. H. Lawrence

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a…

— D. H. Lawrence

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the…

— D. H. Lawrence

Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self…

— D. H. Lawrence

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is…

— D. H. Lawrence

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's…

— D. H. Lawrence

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of,…

— D. H. Lawrence

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of…

— D. H. Lawrence

The great home of the soul is the open road.

— D. H. Lawrence

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

— D. H. Lawrence

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

— D. H. Lawrence

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

— D. H. Lawrence

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

— D. H. Lawrence

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

— D. H. Lawrence

The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.

— D. H. Lawrence

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

— D. H. Lawrence

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

— D. H. Lawrence

To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.

— D. H. Lawrence

Beware of absolutes. There are many gods.

— D. H. Lawrence

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

— D. H. Lawrence

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.

— D. H. Lawrence

The living moment is everything.

— D. H. Lawrence

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

— D. H. Lawrence

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

— D. H. Lawrence