966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.