Quotes from D. H. Lawrence

He was a little model, was Benjamin. Doctor Franklin. Snuff-colored little man! Immortal soul and all!

The living moment is everything.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

A snake came to my water troughOn a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat,To drink there.

I love Frieda so much I don't like to talk about it. I never knew what love was before…. The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great—quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are.

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

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 Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again.

We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn't matter so much as it seemed to do -- it's not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean onto a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn't matter so much.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

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.

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

no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the variety of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love must be multi-form, else it is just tyranny, just death

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.