The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another:… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told. — 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
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are -… — 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
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as… — 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
To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to… — 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
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — 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
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
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
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
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
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
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
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
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
If a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it! — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share
