D. H. LawrenceSleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, k… ▶371LovePoliticsReading
D. H. LawrenceI can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). The Select… ▶371PoliticsReading
D. H. LawrenceThe great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, c… ▶372LifePolitics
D. H. LawrenceGood God, what does it matter? If life is a tragedy, or a farce, or a disaster, or anything else, what do I care! Let life be what it likes. Give me a drink, that's what I want ju… ▶361DeathLifePolitics
D. H. LawrenceVitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe. ✨ D.H. Lawrence (2013). Delphi … ▶372DeathHumanityPolitics
D. H. LawrenceWhat is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them. … ▶361Politics
D. H. LawrenceI prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't. ✨ D. H. Lawrence (2016). D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House), p.1124, Book Ho… ▶361PoliticsReading
D. H. LawrenceI believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.373Love
D. H. LawrenceOne doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, Ja… ▶351Politics
D. H. LawrenceAs we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction ✨ D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, p.218, Cambridge University Press351Politics
D. H. LawrenceThe American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got… ▶351LifePolitics
D. H. LawrenceIn every living thing there is the desire for love. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, p.331, Cambridge Univ… ▶362DeathLifeLove
D. H. Lawrence... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. … ▶373Politics
D. H. LawrenceThe upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.352Sadness
D. H. LawrenceAll hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with… ▶341HopeLovePolitics
D. H. LawrenceIt is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a great… ▶363LifeLovePolitics
D. H. LawrenceShe had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him. ✨ Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence.341Politics
D. H. LawrenceAre you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. ✨ D. H. L… ▶341PoliticsReading
D. H. LawrenceNot I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. ✨ Song of a Man Who Has Come Through l. 1 (1920)363Time
D. H. LawrenceThe Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. ✨ D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays, p.216, Ca… ▶352DeathPoliticsReflection
D. H. LawrenceI'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 (2016). Lady chatterleys lover, … ▶331LovePolitics
D. H. LawrenceOurs is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new lit… ▶364HopePoliticsTime
D. H. LawrenceI should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we… ▶353LifePoliticsReading
D. H. LawrenceEthics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. ✨ Medical Ethics and Humanities. Book by Frederick Adolf Paola, Robert Walker, Lois LaCivita… ▶375HumanityReading
D. H. LawrenceFor whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously… ▶364PoliticsThoughtTime
D. H. LawrenceBeauty 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. Law… ▶331LifePolitics
D. H. LawrenceIt seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, lov… ▶354LovePoliticsTruth
D. H. LawrenceI like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze. ✨ Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 246376Sadness
D. H. LawrenceAnd 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-creat… ▶321Life
D. H. LawrenceBut the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of … ▶332LifePolitics
