All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster. Any
- In the ancient recipe, the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep, drink, and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up,… Ancient
- Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace. Absolute
- You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself. Discovery
- You must always be a-waggle with LOVE. Funny
- I have lived among enough painters and around studios to have had all the theories - and how contradictory they are - rammed down my… All
- Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil. Based
- Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even… All
- I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self… Endured
- What a frail, easily hurt, rather pathetic thing a human body is, naked; somehow a little unfinished, incomplete! Body
- Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment… Americanized
- It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom of a deep… Absolutely
- Why is a door-knob deader than anything else? Anything Else
- Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure. Bad
- No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love. Form
- Beware of absolutes. There are many gods. Absolutes
- Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm… All
- The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. Forfeit
- We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of… All
- Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife in the heart… Bliss
- If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and a… All
- Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity… Abstraction
- The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature… Combination
- The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any… Abiding
- Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing… Behave