Top 108 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

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.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

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.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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

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.

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.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.