Quotes from D.H. Lawrence

Time went on. Whatever happened, nothing happened, because she was so beautifully out of contact . . . Time went on as the clock does, half-past eight instead of half-past seven.

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--

Here, on the farther shore of the sunset, with the flushed tide at his feet, and the large star flashing with strange laughter, did he himself naked walk with lifted arms into the quiet flood of life.

With the English, nothing could save him from being the eternal outsider, not even love.

Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.

Make him stop drinking'. He prayed every night. 'Lord, let my father die', he prayed very often. 'Let him not be killed at pit', he prayed when, after tea, the father did not come home from work.

Strut' said Ursula. 'One wants to strut, to be a swan among geese

Cause-and-effect will not explain even the individuality of a single dandelion.

She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

Paul walked with something screwed up tight inside him. He would have suffered much physical pain rather than this unreasonable suffering at being exposed to strangers

The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.

It was the talk that mattered supremely: the impassioned interchange of talk. Love was only a minor accompaniment.

I want to find you, where you don't know your own existence, the you that your common self denies utterly.

It was as if she could scarcely stand the shock of physical love, even a passionate kiss, and then he was too shrinking and sensitive to give it.

special natures you must give a special world.

In his dark eyes was a deep misery which he wore with the same ease and pleasantness as he wore his close-sitting clothes.

Awful things men were, savage, cruel, underneath their civilization.

Oh God, if the mechanism of the consciousness itself was going to go wrong, then what was one to do? Hang it all, one did one's bit! Was one to be let down absolutely?

the country had become too uncongenial. The gentry were departing to pleasanter places, where they could spend their money without having to see how it was made.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

Connie was absolutely afraid of the industrial masses. They seemed so weird to her. A life with utterly no beauty in it, no intuition, always "in the pit.

Different places on the face of the earth have different vital effluence, different vibration, different chemical exhalation, different polarity with different stars: call it what you like. But the spirit of place is a great reality.

Her absorption was strange, almost rhapsodic. Both Birkin and Ursula were suspended. The little red pistillate flowers had some strange, almost mystic-passionate attraction for her.

I really do not want to be forced into all this criticism and analysis of life. I really do want to see things in their entirety, with their beauty left to them, and their wholeness, their natural holiness.Don't you feel it, don't you feel you can't be tortured into any more knowledge?