Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
D. H. LawrenceNobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.
D. H. LawrenceWhatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.
D. H. LawrenceA woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
D. H. LawrenceI know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.
D. H. LawrenceIt was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.
D. H. Lawrence