966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he’d just laugh.

A woman needn’t be dragged down by her functions.

And yet – and yet – one’s kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.

Perhaps you’re a slave to your own idea of yourself.

If you believe in your own sex, and won’t have it done dirt to: they’ll down you. It’s the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

God doesn’t know things. He is things.

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see – everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

For us to go to Italy and to penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven’t really got.