Quotes from DH Lawrence

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--

She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

I really do not want to be forced into all this criticism and analysis of life. I really do want to see things in their entirety, with their beauty left to them, and their wholeness, their natural holiness.Don't you feel it, don't you feel you can't be tortured into any more knowledge?

He also wearied his mother very often. She saw the sunshine going out of him, and she resented it.

Nobody knocks here, and the unexpected sounds ominous.

But, Lord, if it is Thy will that I should love him, make me love him - as Christ would, who died for the souls of men. Make me love him splendidly, because he is Thy son.

I have travelled, and looked at the world, and loved it. Now I don't want to look at the world anymore, there seems nothing there. In not-looking, and in not-seeing comes a new strength and undeniable new gods share their life with us, when we cease to see.

All this talk of equality between the sexes is merely an expression of sex-hate. Men and women should learn tenderness to each other and to leave one another alone.

She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.