Quotes from D. H. Lawrence

The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

My wife has a beastly habit of comparing poetry -- all literature in fact -- to the droppings of the goats among the rocks -- mere excreta that fertilises the ground it falls on.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

God doesn't know things. He is things.