D. H. Lawrence quotes

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. (D. H. Lawrence)
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
D. H. Lawrence
God is only a great imaginative experience.
D. H. Lawrence
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
D. H. Lawrence
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
D. H. Lawrence
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
D. H. Lawrence
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
D. H. Lawrence
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
D. H. Lawrence
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. (D. H. Lawrence)
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D. H. Lawrence
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
D. H. Lawrence
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D. H. Lawrence
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D. H. Lawrence
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
D. H. Lawrence
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
D. H. Lawrence
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
D. H. Lawrence
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
D. H. Lawrence
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. (D. H. Lawrence)
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. Lawrence
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.
D. H. Lawrence
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
D. H. Lawrence
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.
D. H. Lawrence