966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving.