QUOTES BY D. H. Lawrence

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free from their authority.

It's the man who dares to take, who is independent, not he who gives.

Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

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! The only animal in the world to fear!

The Rhine is still the Rhine, the great divider... Immediately you are over the Rhine, the spirit of place has changed... It is as if the life had retreated eastwards. As if the Germanic life were slowly ebbing away from contact with western Europe, ebbing to the deserts of the east.