D.H. Lawrence Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack.

2. I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."(Letter to Cynthia Asquith, November 1913) Letters

3. It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

4. Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings? The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

5. Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

6. The most unfree souls go west, and shout of freedom.

7. He had no future in the world: of that he was conscious. He had no future in this life. Even if he lived on, it would only be a kind of enduring. But he felt the after-life belonged to him. Future in the world he could not give her. Life in the world he had not to offer her. Better go on alone. Surely better go on alone. The Ladybird

8. Hope had become almost a curse to her. She wished there need be no such thing. Ha, the torment of hoping, and the insult to one‘s soul. The Ladybird

9. It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them. Lady Chatterley's Lover

10. My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.

11. The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being. Selected Essays

12. There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.

13. Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that. Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious and Fantasia of the Unconscious