I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating. – D.H. Lawrence
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. – D.H. Lawrence
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them. – D.H. Lawrence
The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. – D.H. Lawrence
It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. – D.H. Lawrence
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression. – D.H. Lawrence
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. – D.H. Lawrence
The living moment is everything. – D.H. Lawrence
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. – D.H. Lawrence
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor. – D.H. Lawrence
Men! The only animal in the world to fear. – D.H. Lawrence
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. – D.H. Lawrence
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive… and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence
The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist. – D.H. Lawrence
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos. – D.H. Lawrence
We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. – D.H. Lawrence
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – D.H. Lawrence
One doesn’t know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one’s friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one. – D.H. Lawrence
