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
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
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything. — 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
Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. — 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
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
We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration… — 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