Famous DH Lawrence Quotes

  • Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul. – DH Lawrence

    Oh build your ship of death, oh build it in time and build it lovingly, and put it between the hands of your soul.– DH Lawrence

  • She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte. – DH Lawrence

    She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.– DH Lawrence

  • He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die. – DH Lawrence

    He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.– DH Lawrence

  • The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. – DH Lawrence

    The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.– DH Lawrence

  • The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. – DH Lawrence

    The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.– DH 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. – DH 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.– DH Lawrence

  • I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don’t know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy. – DH Lawrence

    I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don’t know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.– DH Lawrence

  • Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life! – DH Lawrence

    Connie felt again the tightness, niggardliness of the men of her generation. They were so tight, so scared of life!– DH Lawrence

  • One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on. – DH Lawrence

    One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.– DH Lawrence

  • A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon’s mouth sometimes and speaks for him. – DH Lawrence

    A young man is afraid of his demon and pulls his hand over the demon’s mouth sometimes and speaks for him.– DH Lawrence