D. H. Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. ”

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. ”

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. ”

People always make war when they say they love peace. ”

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

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ”

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. ”

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering. ”

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. ”

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ”