D. H. Lawrence Quotes

"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

 "You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow." ~ D. H. Lawrence

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

 "Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "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

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

 "The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself." ~ 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

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

 "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

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

 "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

 "Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "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

 "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

 "The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to." ~ D. H. Lawrence

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

 "Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken." ~ 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

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

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

 "There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master." ~ D. H. Lawrence

 "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

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

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