966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A place that is lived in lives.

And now he's tiny, and soft like a little bud of life!

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.