966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

America exhausts the springs of one's soul - I suppose that's what it exists for. It lives to see all real spontaneity expire. But anyhow it doesn't grind on an old nerve as Europe seems to.

Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. And what one wants is the actual vital touch.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite commonplace people.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.