966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere – a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.

I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.

I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I’m sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual – we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I’m sure that is entirely wrong.

If it doesn’t absorb you, if it isn’t any fun, don’t do it.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear.

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

I believe the nearest I’ve come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

What the eye doesn’t see and the mind doesn’t know, doesn’t exist.