All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says. All
- The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. Boor
- Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. Great
- The dead don't die. They look on and help. Dead
- Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending. Attending
- My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest,… All
- To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake… Act
- Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion. Hint
- Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. Angel
- One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. Book
- Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. Feelings
- For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you… Actualities
- Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them. Act
- I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman. Greatest Love
- We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain… Bodies
- A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there. Came
- If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology. Course
- Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming… Beginning
- You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered. Die
- We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do - it's not so burningly important, after… All
- Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. Blow
- The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness. Aristocracy
- I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and… Blood
- Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still America
- The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. Bits