27 Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

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.

The elephant, the huge old beast, is slow to mate.

So slowly the hot elephant hearts grow full of desire, and the great beasts mate in secret at last, hiding their fire.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Men can such the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men.

All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the morning to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, For they dream their dreams with open eyes, and make them come true.