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
Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. — 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
For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from… — 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
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of… — 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
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
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
[Man's] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water, insects, fishes, birds, creatures, sun,rainbow, children, women, other… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple… — 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