966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You've got to know yourself so that you can at last be yourself. "Be yourself" is the last motto.