966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.

And whoever forces himself to love anybody begets a murderer in his own body.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.