Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out… — 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
That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making… — 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
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
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
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
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides… — 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