966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

A bird doesn't feel sorry for itself in the winter.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

Perhaps you're a slave to your own idea of yourself.

Oh - one would feel things instead of merely looking at them. I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become too visual - we can neither hear or feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.