Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on… — 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
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within… — 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
The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and… — 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
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
