Quotes from D. H. Lawrence

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.

Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

In my very own self, I am part of my family.

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.