966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. There is not any part of me that is alone and absolute except my mind, and we shall find that the mind has no existence by itself, it is only the glitter of the sun on the surfaces of the water.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Why is a door-knob deader than anything else?

Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.