Top 500 D. H. Lawrence Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

— D. H. Lawrence

102. “Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.”

— D. H. Lawrence

103. “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 orange and scrub the floor.”

— D. H. Lawrence

104. “I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.”

— D. H. Lawrence

105. “Never trust the teller, trust the tale.”

— D. H. Lawrence

106. “Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.”

— D. H. Lawrence

107. “The feelings I don’t have I don’t have. The feelings I don’t have, I won’t say I have. The felings you say you have, you don’t have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.”

— D. H. Lawrence

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

— D. H. Lawrence

109. “You don’t learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can’t you look at it with your clear simple wits?”

— D. H. Lawrence

110. “I shall always be a priest of love.”

— D. H. Lawrence

111. “The journey of love has been rather a lacerating, if well-worth-it, journey.”

— D. H. Lawrence

112. “One sheds one’s sicknesses in books – repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.”

— D. H. Lawrence

113. “Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.”

— D. H. Lawrence

114. “Where sanity is there God is.”

— D. H. Lawrence

115. “Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.”

— D. H. Lawrence

116. “Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it’s touch we’re afraid of.”

— D. H. Lawrence

117. “There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.”

— D. H. Lawrence

118. “Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.”

— D. H. Lawrence

119. “Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table.”

— D. H. Lawrence

120. “Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.”

— D. H. Lawrence

121. “The goal is to know how not-to-know.”

— D. H. Lawrence

122. “I’d be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.”

— D. H. Lawrence

123. “Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won’t fall off the tree when they’re ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.”

— D. H. Lawrence

124. “I am in love – and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”

— D. H. Lawrence

125. “The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.”

— D. H. Lawrence

126. “The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one’s wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.”

— D. H. Lawrence

127. “She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

128. “Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”

— D. H. Lawrence

129. “Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.”

— D. H. Lawrence

130. “The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being, as a tree comes into full blossom, or a bird into spring beauty, or a tiger into lustre.”

— D. H. Lawrence

131. “If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.”

— D. H. Lawrence

132. “Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.”

— D. H. Lawrence

133. “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can’t wake up.”

— D. H. Lawrence

134. “Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.”

— D. H. Lawrence

135. “Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”

— D. H. Lawrence

136. “A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”

— D. H. Lawrence

137. “Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.”

— D. H. Lawrence

138. “One man isn’t any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.”

— D. H. Lawrence

139. “Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”

— D. H. Lawrence

140. “Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”

— D. H. Lawrence

141. “There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.”

— D. H. Lawrence

142. “Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.”

— D. H. Lawrence

143. “Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.”

— D. H. Lawrence

144. “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.”

— D. H. Lawrence

145. “And can a man his own quietus make with a bare bodkin?”

— D. H. Lawrence

146. “Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.”

— D. H. Lawrence

147. “You’ll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you’ve got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.”

— D. H. Lawrence

148. “Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.”

— D. H. Lawrence

149. “The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing.”

— D. H. Lawrence

150. “I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.”

— D. H. Lawrence