966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Only the desert has a fascination – to ride alone – in the sun in the forever unpossessed country – away from man. That is a great temptation.

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be.

The only history is a mere question of one’s struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

The feelings I don’t have I don’t have. The feelings I don’t have, I won’t say I have. The felings you say you have, you don’t have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don’t.

Homer was wrong in saying, “Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!” He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

I’ll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.

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 orange and scrub the floor.