Top 108 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.