All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. Better
- One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. Better
- One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other… Always Towards
- The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. Cold Hearted
- When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere. Bound
- The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. Actual
- My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy,… Add
- Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. Edge
- There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. End
- This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. Acknowledge
- Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. Collective
- Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means. Everything Means
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. Age
- The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her. Dictate
- There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God,… All
- Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as… Absurdity
- You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if… Abnormal
- All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. All
- Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. America
- God is only a great imaginative experience. Experience
- Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. Accomplished
- I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. Believe
- I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in… Admire
- I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. Business
- I shall always be a priest of love. Famous Love