The best Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The best Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English writer, novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Several of his novels, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
There's lots of good fish in the sea... maybe... but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.
I only want one thing of men, and that is, that they should leave me alone.
It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.
What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.
Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.
Me? Oh, intellectually I believe in having a good heart, a chirpy p-nis, a lively intelligence, and the courage to say 'shit!' in front of a lady.
Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a man to make money.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
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 duration.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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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She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.
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You should never trust a woman who just had her heart broken. We tend to lie.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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If you want more sex, just ask for it.
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Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
Just as the eye was made to see colours, and the ear to hear sounds, so the human mind was made to understand.
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
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