Quotes from DH Lawrence

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.

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.

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

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

A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.