Top 108 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

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.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.