One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
D. H. LawrenceAny inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.
D. H. LawrenceThe feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
D. H. LawrenceOne man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.
D. H. LawrenceWhen man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
D. H. LawrenceThere is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
D. H. Lawrence