and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in… — 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
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Yes, this was love, this ridiculous bouncing of the buttocks, and the wilting of the poor, insignificant, moist little penis.” — 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
When science starts to be interpretive it is more unscientific even than mysticism. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Human love, human trust, are always perilous, because they break down. The greater the love, the greater the trust, and the greater… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it. — 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
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 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