966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The difference between people isn’t in their class, but in themselves. Only from the middle classes one gets ideas, and from the common people – life itself, warmth. You feel their hates and loves.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one’s passional changes.

One sheds one’s sicknesses in books – repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.

Some things can’t be ravished. You can’t ravish a tin of sardines. And so many women are like that: and men. But the earth... !

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one’s mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower.

My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn’t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won’t fall off the tree when they’re ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.