966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and get into the forests again, we shall shiver with cold and fright but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power, we shall stamp our feet with new power and old things will fall down, we shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.