Quotes from DH Lawrence

But he had been so much hurt that something inside him had perished, some of his feelings had gone. There was a blank of insentience.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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.

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

Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...

The 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 so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

There is no such thing as liberty,' she heard the quiet, deep, dangerous voice of Don Ramón repeating. 'There is no such thing as liberty. The greatest liberators are usually slaves of an idea. The freest people are slaves to convention and public opinion, and more still, slaves to the industrial machine. 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.

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it's always daisy-time.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.