D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.

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And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn.

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and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.

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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.

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Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

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The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

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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.

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I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

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Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen defeated by the dragon, in their efforts to win the apples of the Hesperides, or the fleece of gold. Fallen in their efforts to overcome the old, half sordid savagery of the lower stages of creation, and win the next stage.

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I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

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The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

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The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived fromthe very God who bade them be not conscious of it.

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Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

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I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

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Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

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He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

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She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

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

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