966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

Mystic equality lies in abstraction, not in having or in doing, which are processes. In function and process, one man, one part, must of necessity be subordinate to another. It is a condition of being.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Good God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want just now.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

Where sanity is there God is.