List of D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I Can Only See Death And More Death, Till We Are Black And Swollen With Death.

The Soul Is A Very Perfect Judge Of Her Own Motions, If Your Mind Doesn't Dictate To Her.

I Never Know When I Sit Down, Just What I Am Going To Write. I Make No Plan; It Just Comes, And I Don't Know Where It Comes From.

Never Trust The Artist. Trust The Tale. The Proper Function Of The Critic Is To Save The Tale From The Artist Who Created It.

One Must Learn To Love, And Go Through A Good Deal Of Suffering To Get To It, Like Any Knight Of The Grail, And The Journey Is Always Towards The Other Soul, Not Away From It. . . . To Love You Have To Learn To Understand The Other, More Than She Understands Herself, And To Submit To Her Understanding Of You. It Is Damnably Difficult And Painful, But It Is The Only Thing Which Endures.

The Spirit Of Place [does Not] Exert Its Full Influence Upon A Newcomer Until The Old Inhabitant Is Dead Or Absorbed. So America.... The Moment The Last Nuclei Of Red [indian] Life Break Up In America, Then The White Men Will Have To Reckon With The Full Force Of The Demon Of The Continent.

They Say Geniuses Mostly Have Great Mothers. They Mostly Have Sad Fates.

The Journey Of Love Has Been Rather A Lacerating, If Well-worth-it, Journey.

But Better Die Than Live Mechanically A Life That Is A Repetition Of Repetitions.

One Could Laugh At The World Better If It Didn't Mix Tender Kindliness With Its Brutality.

There's Always The Hyena Of Morality At The Garden Gate, And The Real Wolf At The End Of The Street.

Oh The Innocent Girl In Her Maiden Teens Knows Perfectly Well What Everything Means.