966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Religion was fading into the background. He had shovelled away all the beliefs that would hamper him, had cleared the ground, and come more or less to the bedrock of belief that one should feel inside oneself for right or wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God. Now life interested him more.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.