Quotes from DH Lawrence

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

That's how women are with me " said Paul. "They want me like mad but they don't want to belong to me.

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

You have striven so hard, and so long, to compel life. Can't you now slowly change, and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.

The young Cambridge group, the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck, and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy, and a whispering, murmuring, sort of voice, and an ultra-sensitive sort of manner.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.