They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.
D. H. LawrenceOne should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
D. H. LawrenceThe more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
D. H. LawrenceShe wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.
D. H. Lawrence