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
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
When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know… — 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
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
When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power.… — 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 living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,… — 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
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. — 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
“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
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
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
Previously, even in Egypt, men had not learned to see straight. They fumbled in the dark, and didn't quite know where they… — 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
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
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
For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives.… — 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
My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed… — 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
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the… — 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
