D.H. Lawrence Quotes

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.

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 mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A bird will fall frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you`ve got to say, and say it hot.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.

It was cold, and he was coughing. A fine cold draught blew over the knoll. He thought of the woman. Now he would have given all he had or ever might have to hold her warm in his arms, both of them wrapped in one blanket, and sleep. All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

The tragedy is when you`ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

We don`t exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

The true artist doesn`t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.