D. H. Lawrence famous quotes

Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Breakup #Finding Love

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love #Inspirational #Sky

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 stick to the mass.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Real #People #Looks

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Poison

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 build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Hard Work #Sky #Age

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Dance #Cosmos #Alive

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 the universe.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Race #Air #Roots

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: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Stars #Cutting #Roots

In every living thing there is the desire for love.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love #Best Love #Romance

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Motivation #Regret

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Spring #Self #Bird

Recklessness is almost a man's revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Revenge #Men #Risk

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Peace #Life And Love #Work

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Dream #Sleep #Men

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Fighting #Love Is #Laughing

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love #Life #Best Friend

The dead don't die. They look on and help.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Looks #Helping

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Mistake #Men #Needs

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Sorry #Bird

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sorry #Saws #Wild Things

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Children #Freedom #Fighting

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 have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Children #Hate #Men

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Land #Over The Edge

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Real #Garden #Literature

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Artist #World #Fit

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 of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love You #Love Is #Long

Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Science #Oxygen #Two

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Courage #Real #Faces

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love You #Sleep #Men

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Soul #Essentials #Killers

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love #Fall #Philosophical

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 to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Heart #Hands #Literature

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 get a response there, then I accept.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Intuition #Mind #Body

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, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Light #Water #Democracy

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love

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 a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Believe #Dark #Men

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time.  Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Discovery #Self #Years

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 get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Fall #Passion #Squirrels

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Lonely #People #Complaining

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 years. And for this reason, some old things are lovely warm still with the life of forgotten men who made them.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Men #Glowing #Hands

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Men #Religion #Atheism

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Beauty #Patterns #Fixed

The living moment is everything.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Time #Moments

What is ***** to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Laughter #Men #Genius

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Unseen #Consciousness

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Effort #Together #Want

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspiring #Beautiful #Animal

I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Car #Stones #States

How sure I feel, how warm and strong and happy For the future! How sure the future is within me; I am like a seed with a perfect flower enclosed....
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Strong #Flower #Future

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Self #Games #People

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Cutting #Arses #Body

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Growing Up #Responsibility #Obscurity

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Hands #Melting #Faces

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Love Is #Elements #Emotion

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Cosmos #Body #Stills

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Time #Wings

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Leave Me Alone #Going Away #Want

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.
-- D. H. Lawrence

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Children #Firsts #Educate

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Lying #Lambs #Lions

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Modern #Photograph

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Dog #Men #Pet

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Air #Would Be #Littles

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#People #Lovely #Language

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Book #Jewels #Profound

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Blood #Soul #Depth

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Evil #Secret #Passionate

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sex #Tragedy #Chakra

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Artist #Men #Ordinary

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Animal #Men #World

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Wise #Wisdom #Funeral

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Beautiful #Passion #Literature

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Positive #Literature

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Important #Letters #Parentheses

Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Horse #Dark #Soul

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Leadership #Rushing #Action

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Writing #Spiteful #Feels

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Flower #Men

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Moving #Particular

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Morning #Stars #Men

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Horse #Inspiration #Movement

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Life #Dream

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Life #Wisdom #Taken

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sex #Dirt #Insult

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Sexy #Sex #Sensual

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Beauty #Soul

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Art #Men #Relation

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Journey #Soul #Suffering

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Inspirational #Men #Self

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Religious #Wonder #Natural

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Justice #Judging #Principles

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Money #Literature #Madness

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Men #Emotional #Educated

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 ever love at all.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Reflection #Hopeless #Hopelessness

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Philosophy #Blessed #Mean

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 tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Book #Men #Alive

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Desire #Instinct

What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Connections #Cosmos #Earth

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Beautiful #Expression #Masculinity

That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
-- D. H. Lawrence

#Children #Fate #Bears