Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. D. H. Lawrence garden real literature One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. D. H. Lawrence laughter brutality laughing But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. D. H. Lawrence repetition literature life Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing. D. H. Lawrence healing perfect sleep He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to be cast off again. In misery, his heart like a heavy stone, he went about unliving. D. H. Lawrence communication stones heart Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love) D. H. Lawrence enough said men The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion. D. H. Lawrence strong responsibility wish And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it. D. H. Lawrence kites let-it-go wind You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it. D. H. Lawrence bits believe Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place. D. H. Lawrence lovely magic men The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent. D. H. Lawrence equality liberty three The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse. D. H. Lawrence horse wine food The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn. D. H. Lawrence pain artist might Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery. D. H. Lawrence kicks misery tragedy The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. D. H. Lawrence imagination beautiful world Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. D. H. Lawrence beauty life sex It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul. D. H. Lawrence running love sex The map appears to us more real than the land. D. H. Lawrence land real reality God doesn't know things. He is things. D. H. Lawrence literature knows reality My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new! D. H. Lawrence juice cabbage dirty
