966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.

You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell emerges strange and lovely.

For God’s sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don’t say surgaries, or I’m done.

One man isn’t any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.

You’re spending your life without renewing it. You’ve got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You’re spending your vitality without making any. Can’t go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression!