Quotes from DH Lawrence
While we live, let us live.
- DH Lawrence
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
- DH Lawrence
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
- DH Lawrence
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
- DH Lawrence
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
- DH Lawrence
Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure.
- DH Lawrence
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
- DH Lawrence
Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.
- DH Lawrence
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.
- DH Lawrence
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
- DH Lawrence
So we need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. But not in the rather silly modern way of horoscopy and telling your fortune by the stars... They want their "fortune" told, never this misfortune.
- DH Lawrence
For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.
- DH Lawrence