David Herbert Lawrence

“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.”

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

“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.”

“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”

“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”

“The novel is the one bright book of life.”

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

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.”

“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.”

“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to be alive.”

“The world is a great and rapid river, and I am a cork.”

“The only thing that is mortal in this world is love, for love is eternal.”

“Men are not free when they are doing just what they like. Men are only free when they are doing what the deepest self likes.”

“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”

“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”

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

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

“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!”

“Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it.”

“One must be so careful with words: they're sharp and they can be cruel.”