966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

Sing then the core of dark and absolute oblivion where the soul at last is lost in utter peace.

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?