966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

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.

Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative passions, separate, apart, but complementary: the one pivotal, the other adventurous: the one, marriage, the centre of human life; and the other, the leap ahead.

I see a redness suddenly come Into the evening's anxious breast-- 'Tis the wound of love goes home!

No man is or can be purely individual. The mass of men have only the tiniest touch of individuality: if any. The mass of men live and move, think and feel collectively, and have practically no individual emotions, feelings or thoughts at all. They ar

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

John Thomas says goodnight to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart