“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself”
— D.H. Lawrence“For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.”
— D.H. Lawrence“And when the dawn comes creeping in,Cautiously I shall raiseMyself to watch the daylight win.”
— D.H. LawrenceThe essential function of art is to give a sense of life as a whole, and in this sense to bring together all the elements of the world into a unity.
— D.H. LawrenceI am not a man to be easily taken in, but the world does take me in, and I, who have such a high opinion of my own cleverness, am deceived.
— D.H. LawrenceLove is never the same as liking. Love is far more complicated, far more dangerous, far more exhausting. It is not a question of liking or disliking.
— D.H. LawrenceThe human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
— D.H. LawrenceMen who are not afraid of women are often afraid of other men, especially their own passions.
— D.H. LawrenceThe body craves, but the hunger lies in the desire for closeness, a union beyond the physical.
— D.H. Lawrence