966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

She was the flint and he the steel. But in continual striking together they only destroyed each other.

Those that go searching for love, only manifest their own loveless ness. And the loveless never find love, only the loving find love. And they never have to seek for it.

Tragedy is like strong acid it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shellemerges strange and lovely.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

Life is beautiful, so long as it consuming you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It is best to roar away, like a fire with a great draught, white hot to the last bit. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel that life's not worth having.