01UndatedFor my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
02UndatedNobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
03UndatedIt 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
05UndatedIt'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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
07UndatedI 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
08UndatedIt 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
10UndatedI like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.", November 1913)D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
11UndatedThe living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
12UndatedThis is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
13UndatedHuman 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...D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
14UndatedOh, I've no patience with these romances. They're the ruin of all order. It's a thousand pities they ever happenedD.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
16UndatedWhen along the pavement,Palpitating flames of life,People flicker around me,I forget my bereavement,The gap in the great constellation,The place where a star used to beD.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
17UndatedThere is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
18UndatedThe profoundest of all sensualitiesis the sense of truthand the next deepest sensual experienceis the sense of justice.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
19UndatedMen 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
20UndatedMy God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
21UndatedThere was a warmth of fury in his last phrases. He meant she loved him more than he her. Perhaps he could not love her. Perhaps she had not in herself that which he wanted. It was the deepest motive of her soul, this self-mistrust. It was so deep she dared neither realise nor acknowledge. Perhaps she was deficient. Like an infinitely subtle shame, it kept her always back. If it were so, she would do without him. She would never let herself want him. She would merely see.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
22UndatedSometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
23UndatedWe 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.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
24UndatedOne sheds ones sickness in books- repeats and presents again ones emotions, to be master of them.D.H. Lawrence / quote ↗
