Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?
D. H. LawrenceI shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
D. H. LawrenceThere's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
D. H. LawrenceBut I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.
D. H. LawrenceIf only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
D. H. LawrenceLet man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. Lewdness is hateful because it impairs our integrity and our proud being. The creative, spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.
D. H. Lawrence