D. H. Lawrence

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

“Failures are usually the most conceited of men.”

“I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.”

“I can’t bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”

“It is so much more difficult to live with one’s body than with one’s soul. One’s body is so much more exacting: what it won’t have it won’t have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.”

“Men can suck the heady juice of exalted self-importance from the bitter weed of failure--failures are usually the most conceited of men.”

“One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindness with its brutality.”

“One sheds one’s sicknesses in books—repeats and presents again one’s emotions, to be master of them.”

“The human consciousness is really homogenous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.”

“The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.”

“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gently. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”

“This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.”

“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.”

“We only seem to learn from Life that Life doesn’t matter so much as it seemed to do—it’s not so burningly important, after all, what happens. We crawl, like blinking sea-creatures, out of the Ocean into a spur of rock, we creep over the promontory bewildered and dazzled and hurting ourselves, then we drop in the ocean on the other side: and the little transit doesn’t matter so much.”