D.H. Lawrence

Quotes

• “Connie’s man could be a bit sulky, and Hilda’s a bit jeering. But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. W...”
• “From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer wo...”
• “She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beau...”
• “There was the loud noise of water, as ever, something eternal and maddening in its sound, like the sound of Time itself,...”
• “She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like a...”
• “But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and w...”
• “Yes, I do believe in something. I believe in being warm-hearted. Ibelieve especially in being warm-hearted in love, in f...”
• “She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay ho...”
• “The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact i...”
• “Man is willing to accept woman as an equal, as a man in skirts, as an angel, a devil, a baby-face, a machine, an instrum...”
• “The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one d...”
• “Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference b...”
• “But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assum...”
• “Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peac...”
• “Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old alon...”
• “You are the call and I am the answer,You are the wish, and I the fulfilment,You are the night, and I the day. What else?...”
• “And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This c...”
• “So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kind...”
• “Aren't I enough for you?' she asked.'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all w...”
• “He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of br...”
• “All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father,...”
• “And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and wi...”
• “She, who was bored almost to agony, and who had nothing at all to do, she had not time to think even, seriously, of anyt...”
• “For God’s sake, let us be mennot monkeys minding machinesor sitting with our tails curledwhile the machine amuses us, th...”
• “When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making prop...”
• “To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel suprem...”
• “The days go by, through the brief silence of winter, when the sunshine is so still and pure, like iced wine, and the dea...”
• “When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thoug...”
• “For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one a...”
• “The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as ...”
• “When along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great...”
• “Be as promiscuous as the rabbits!' said Hammond. 'Why not? What's wrong with rabbits? Are they any worse than a neurotic...”
• “Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have ...”
• “It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing hi...”
• “Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves on...”
• “The point is, what sort of a time can a man give a woman? Can he give her a damn good time, or can't he? If he can't he'...”
• “The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but j...”
• “Sometimes a high moon, liquid-brilliant, scudded across a hollow space and took cover under electric, brown-iridescent c...”
• “The mighty question arises upon us, what is one's own real self? It certainly is not what we think we are and ought to b...”
• “When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language...”
• “The profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.”
• “Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?”
• “Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”
• “You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”
• “Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!”
• “Oh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happened”
• “Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.”
• “And she shrank away again, back into her darkness, and for a long while remained blotted safely away from living.”
• “Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.”
• “That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.”