We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. — 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
Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has… — 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
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The difference between people isn't in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Oh - one would feel things instead of merely looking at them. I should feel the air move against me, and feel… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd… — 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
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. — 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
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
I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls… — 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
