Quotes from DH Lawrence

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...

A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and the power of movement, of action, in man.

Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.

She did not know why she could not move. It was as in a dream when the heart strains and the body cannot stir.

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so behind women in the matter. They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.

William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.

Time went on grey, uncloured, like a long journey where she sat unconscious as the landscape unrolled beside her.

On and on we go, for the mental consciousness labours under the illusion that there is somewhere to go to, a goal to consciousness. Whereas of course there is no goal. Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.