966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don’t know where it comes from.

It’s hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don’t sit down without one of the gods.

Unless one decorates one’s house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon’s mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere.

There’s nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.