All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief… Actor
- It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem… Dependent
- My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But… Always True
- The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of… American
- The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I… Accept
- The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices,… Brings
- The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to… Armies
- This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than… Believe
- I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my… Blood
- I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life… Air
- When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… Bodies
- It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times,… Accept
- When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos. Complain
- Things men have made with wakened hands, and put soft life into are awake through years with transferred touch, and go on glowing for long… Awake
- The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. American
- Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… Bleeding
- As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction All
- A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board Board
- But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do… All
- Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point… Bunch
- Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. Artist
- Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to… Age
- Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they… Alone
- If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night Coming
- no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety… Accepted