D.H. Lawrence Quotes: 15

• A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

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

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

• It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

  Lady Chatterley's Lover

• It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

• I 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 can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

  Women in Love

• Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.

• I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913)

  Letters

• It 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 greater thing.

• There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

• We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience very time. It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books.

  Apocalypse

• Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose. Not when they are escaping to some wild west. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

  Studies in Classic American Literature

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

  Selected Essays