Top 500 D. H. Lawrence Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.”

— D. H. Lawrence

52. “My God, these folks don’t know how to love – that’s why they love so easily.”

— D. H. Lawrence

53. “How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.”

— D. H. Lawrence

54. “There’s always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”

— D. H. Lawrence

55. “Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?”

— D. H. Lawrence

56. “Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.”

— D. H. Lawrence

57. “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

— D. H. Lawrence

58. “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.”

— D. H. Lawrence

59. “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.”

— D. H. Lawrence

60. “The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.”

— D. H. Lawrence

61. “It’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money, but if you’re born lucky, you will always have more money.”

— D. H. Lawrence

62. “You feel free in Australia. There is great relief in the atmosphere – a relief from tension, from pressure, an absence of control of will or form. The Skies open above you and the areas open around you.”

— D. H. Lawrence

63. “For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”

— D. H. Lawrence

64. “Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.”

— D. H. Lawrence

65. “Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.”

— D. H. Lawrence

66. “If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.”

— D. H. Lawrence

67. “The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.”

— D. H. Lawrence

68. “Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you’re married and her name’s Bertha.”

— D. H. Lawrence

69. “When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.”

— D. H. Lawrence

70. “I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.”

— D. H. Lawrence

71. “The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.”

— D. H. Lawrence

72. “Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.”

— D. H. Lawrence

73. “The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.”

— D. H. Lawrence

74. “How I hate the attitude of ordinary people to life. How I loathe ordinariness! How from my soul I abhor nice simple people, with their eternal price list. It makes my blood boil.”

— D. H. Lawrence

75. “A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.”

— D. H. Lawrence

76. “Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”

— D. H. Lawrence

77. “One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”

— D. H. Lawrence

78. “Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

80. “We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.”

— D. H. Lawrence

81. “Men and women aren’t really dogs: they only look like it and behave like it. Somewhere inside there is a great chagrin and a gnawing discontent.”

— D. H. Lawrence

82. “Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the “purpose” be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.”

— D. H. Lawrence

83. “I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?”

— D. H. Lawrence

84. “The map appears to us more real than the land.”

— D. H. Lawrence

85. “In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

— D. H. Lawrence

86. “I love Italian opera – it’s so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don’t care about their immortal souls, and don’t worry about the ultimate.”

— D. H. Lawrence

87. “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.”

— D. H. Lawrence

88. “A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.”

— D. H. Lawrence

89. “There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.”

— D. H. Lawrence

90. “Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.”

— D. H. Lawrence

91. “You live by what you thrill to, and there’s the end of it.”

— D. H. Lawrence

92. “Money poisons you when you’ve got it, and starves you when you haven’t.”

— D. H. Lawrence

93. “Perhaps you’re a slave to your own idea of yourself.”

— D. H. Lawrence

94. “What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.”

— D. H. Lawrence

95. “My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”

— D. H. Lawrence

96. “Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don’t sit down without one of the gods.”

— D. H. Lawrence

97. “When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.”

— D. H. Lawrence

98. “The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?”

— D. H. Lawrence

99. “Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don’t want any more of your meretricious persiflage.”

— D. H. Lawrence

100. “The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

— D. H. Lawrence