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Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.
— D.H. Lawrence
You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.
— D.H. Lawrence
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
— D.H. Lawrence
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made ... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
— D.H. Lawrence
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
— D.H. Lawrence
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
— D.H. Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
— D.H. Lawrence
Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.
— D.H. Lawrence
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— D.H. Lawrence
Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.
— D.H. Lawrence
Only youth has a taste of immortality.
— D.H. Lawrence
I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
— D.H. Lawrence
Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.
— D.H. Lawrence
Life is a traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
— D.H. Lawrence
He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.
— D.H. Lawrence
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
— D.H. Lawrence
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
— D.H. Lawrence
Having achieved and accomplished love ... man ... has become himself, his tale is told.
— D.H. Lawrence
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.
— D.H. Lawrence
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
— D.H. Lawrence
What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.
— D.H. Lawrence
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 done.
— D.H. Lawrence
Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.
— D.H. Lawrence
everywhere for it. And, as she sought, the conviction came into her heart that her husband had taken it. What she had in her purse was all the money
— D.H. Lawrence
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
— D.H. Lawrence
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
— D.H. Lawrence
One man's meat is another man's poison,' he
— D.H. Lawrence
Horrors might burst out of them. But something must burst out, sometimes, if men are not machines.
— D.H. Lawrence
While the black coal rose jutting round them, and the props of wood stood like little pillars in the low, black, very dark temple.
— D.H. Lawrence
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.
— D.H. Lawrence
The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.
— D.H. Lawrence
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
But that she bear herself,
that is her supreme and risky fate. — D.H. Lawrence
Why does the thin grey strand
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me? — D.H. Lawrence
Floating up from the forgotten
Cigarette between my fingers,
Why does it trouble me? — D.H. Lawrence
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
— D.H. Lawrence
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
— D.H. Lawrence
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
— D.H. Lawrence
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— D.H. Lawrence
Whatever God there is is slowly eliminating the guts and alimentary system from the human being, to evolve a higher, more spiritual being.
— D.H. Lawrence
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
— D.H. Lawrence
Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.
— D.H. Lawrence
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
— D.H. Lawrence
[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.
— D.H. Lawrence
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
— D.H. Lawrence
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
— D.H. Lawrence
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
— D.H. Lawrence
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
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
— D.H. Lawrence
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
— D.H. Lawrence
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
— D.H. Lawrence
...she seemed so like a wet rag that would never dry.
— D.H. Lawrence
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
— D.H. Lawrence
The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.
— D.H. Lawrence
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
— D.H. Lawrence
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) — D.H. Lawrence
His suave loins of darkness, dark-clad and suave
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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
Quite frantically, he longed not to be.
— D.H. Lawrence
I see a redness suddenly come
Into the evening's anxious breast
'Tis the wound of love goes home! — D.H. Lawrence
Into the evening's anxious breast
'Tis the wound of love goes home! — D.H. Lawrence
Be a good animal,true to your instincts.
— D.H. Lawrence
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
— D.H. Lawrence
She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.
— D.H. Lawrence
Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.
— D.H. Lawrence
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
— D.H. Lawrence
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
— D.H. Lawrence
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
— D.H. Lawrence
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
— D.H. Lawrence
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive ... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
— D.H. Lawrence
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
— D.H. Lawrence
The goal is to know how not-to-know.
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She, herself, was so forlorn and unused, not a female at all, just a mere thing of terrors.
— D.H. Lawrence
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
— D.H. Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
— D.H. Lawrence
If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.
— D.H. Lawrence
But I will have it. I will love - it is my birthright. I will love the man I marry - that is all I care about.
— D.H. Lawrence
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
— D.H. Lawrence
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— D.H. Lawrence
She could hear a distant coughing of a sheep.
— D.H. Lawrence
DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.
— D.H. Lawrence