D.H. Lawrence Quotes

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

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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.

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The chief thing about a woman -- who is much of a woman -- is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation -- none of them -- not in the long run. In the long run she only says ''Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me.'' And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

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I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

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I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

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It Mexico is a country where men despise sex, and live for it,' said Ramn. 'Which is suicide.'

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We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.

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Men The only animal in the world to fear.

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What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

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One can no longer live with people it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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

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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.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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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.

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We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

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Every race which has become self-conscious and idea-bound in the past has perished.

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Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has no fixed order and will not be co-coordinated It is sickening Why must all experience be systematized A museum is not a first-hand contact it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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

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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 true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

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

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