I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

The #‎ cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.