Explore Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change.

The living moment is everything.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

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.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.