All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and… Absolute
- For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging… Adopted
- She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. Always Waiting
- It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left… Adoration
- All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in… All
- And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of… Admitted
- Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred… Accomplish
- Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or… All
- It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake. Art
- Was his life nothing? Had he nothing to show, no work? He did not count his work, anyone could have done it. What had he… All
- Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. Funny
- There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself,… Few
- The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a… Alive
- For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm… All
- In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had… Ashamed
- Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind. Body
- Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own. Age
- Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in… Air
- Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams. Conclusion
- The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. All
- I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te… Alive
- You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it. End
- But the act, called the sexual act, is not for the depositing of seed. It is for leaping off into the unknown, as from a… Act
- For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack. Broken
- And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't… All