The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself. – D. H. Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind. – D. H. Lawrence
You don’t want to love – your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren’t positive, you’re negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you’ve got a shortage somewhere. – D. H. Lawrence
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality. – D. H. Lawrence
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. – D. H. Lawrence
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. – D. H. Lawrence
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? – D. H. Lawrence
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. – D. H. Lawrence