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D. H. Lawrence

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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

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

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The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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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.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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