She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never… — 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
The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond… — 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
I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery,… — 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
The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love… — 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