966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men's theories of women, as they alwayshave done. When a woman is thoroughly herself, she is being what her type of man wants her to be. When a woman is hysterical it's because she doesn't quite know what to be, which pattern to follow, which man's picture of woman to live up to.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.