I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

It seems to me that the chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be had... She is not to be caught by any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation - none of them - not in the long run. In the long run she only says Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly dissatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me. And if there is some dissatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.