966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.

Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.

Men and women aren't really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.