Quotes from DH Lawrence
Connie really sometimes felt she would die at this time. She felt she was being crushed to death by weird lies and by the amazing cruelty of idiocy.
- DH Lawrence
Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.
- DH Lawrence
She felt unpeeled and rather exposed. She felt almost improper.
- DH Lawrence
Gudrun entered the taxi, with the deliberate cold movement of a woman who is well-dressed and contemptuous in her soul.
- DH Lawrence
Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.
- DH Lawrence
The shame, the roused feeling of exposure acted on his brain, made him heavy, unutterably heavy.
- DH Lawrence
Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.
- DH Lawrence
That's the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world's somewheres, into our own nowhere.
- DH Lawrence
Never trust the teller, trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
- DH Lawrence
Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.
- DH Lawrence
She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.
- DH Lawrence
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
- DH Lawrence