203 Quotes by D.H. Lawrence

Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no real control!

But he was quite consciously afraid of society, which he knew by instinct to be a malevolent, partly insane beast.

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he accepted the fact inwardly, no matter how Bond-Streety he was on the outside. His isolation was a necessity to him; just as the appearance of conformity and mixing-in with the smart people was also a necessity.

How this darkness soaks me through and through,

She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.

One must strut, like a swan among geese.

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent.

She lived a good deal by herself, to herself, working, passing on from day to day, and always thinking, trying to lay hold on life, to grasp it in her own understanding. Her active living was suspended, but underneath, in the darkness, something was coming to pass. If only she could break through the last integuments!

The hard air was still sulphureous, but they were both used to it. Round the near horizon went the haze, opalescent with frost and smoke, and on the top lay the small blue sky; so that it was like being inside an enclosure, always inside. Life always a dream or a frenzy, inside an enclosure.