Explore Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

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.

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.