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.

- D. H. Lawrence

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- D. H. Lawrence

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.

- D. H. Lawrence

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

- D. H. Lawrence

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

- D. H. Lawrence

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

- D. H. Lawrence

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

- D. H. Lawrence

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

- 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

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

- D. H. Lawrence

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

- D. H. Lawrence

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

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- 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.

- 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

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

- D. H. Lawrence

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

- D. H. Lawrence

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

- D. H. Lawrence