D.H. Lawrence

"For my part, I prefer my heart to be broken. It is so lovely, dawn-kaleidoscopic within the crack."

"Nobody knows you.You don't know yourself.And I, who am half in love with you,What am I in love with?My own imaginings?"

"It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if she adored him too much, then she w…"

"A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."

"It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept …"

"Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved."

"I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor…"

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."