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108 quotes by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence Born David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-09-11)11 September 1885 Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England Died 2 March 1930(1930-03-02) (aged 44) Vence, France Occupation Novelist, poet Nationality English Alma mater University of Nottingham Period 1907–1930 Genre Modernism Notable works Novel: Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love Lady Chatterley's Lover Short Story: Odour of Chrysanthemums The Virgin and the Gypsy The...
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its... →

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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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

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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

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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.

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You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as... →

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There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow... →

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It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet... →

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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.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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

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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.

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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

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