Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The true self is not aware that it is a self. A bird, as it sings, sings itself. But not according to… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics… Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of… — 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
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
For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery — 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
Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could… — 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
