D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Thoughts and images

God doesn't know things. He is things.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

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

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

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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

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

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

The living moment is everything.

The living moment is everything.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

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

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

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Life is travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap is taken.

Life is travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap is taken.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

The essential American soul is hard, isolated, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

The only principle I can see in this life is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

The only principle I can see in this life is that one must forfeit the less for the greater.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

The world is beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

The world is beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards the body, in the joy of creation.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards the body, in the joy of creation.