Top 500 D. H. Lawrence Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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

52. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

54. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

57. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

60. “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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “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

64. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

67. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

69. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

76. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

78. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

81. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

88. “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

89. “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

90. “Go deeper than love, for the soul has greater depths, love is like the grass, but the heart is deep wild rock molten, yet dense and permanent.”

— D. H. Lawrence

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

98. “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

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

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence