966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east.

It ought to be lovely to be old, To be full of the peace that comes with experience And wrinkled ripe fulfillment

And that is how we are. By strength of will we cut off our inner intuitive knowledge from admitted consciousness. This causes a state of dread, or apprehension, which makes the blow ten times worse when it does fall.

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

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.

Marriage is a long event of perpetual change in which a man and a woman mutually build up their souls and make themselves whole.