D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
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Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.
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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
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When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
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Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
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It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.
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I have a very great fear of love. It is so personal. Let each bird fly with its own wings, and each fish swim its own course. Morning brings more than love. And I want to be true to the morning.
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Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.
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The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.
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It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
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It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.
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The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
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They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
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When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
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And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
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Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree of lies.
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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America -- as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
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Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
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Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
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I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.
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The autumn always gets me badly, as it breaks into colours. I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce.