Quotes by D.H. Lawrence

“I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youths follies--thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.”

“When I wish I was rich, then I know I am ill”

“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what youve got to say, and say it hot.”

“If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.”

“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets”

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

“When genuine passion moves you, say what youve got to say, and say it hot”

“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”

“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.”

“I am in love - and, my God, its the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love, if you havent done so already. You are wasting your life.”

“Theres always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”

“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer”

“The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.”

“The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”

“One could laugh at the world better if it didnt mix tender kindliness with its brutality.”

“Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life.”

“We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that”

“Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”

“How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.”

“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”