D. H. Lawrence

"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness."

- D. H. Lawrence

"You’ve got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself."

- D. H. Lawrence

"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."

- D. H. Lawrence

"The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them."

- D. H. Lawrence

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."

- D. H. Lawrence

"The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up."

- D. H. Lawrence

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- D. H. Lawrence

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

- D. H. Lawrence

"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

- D. H. Lawrence

"Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven."

- D. H. Lawrence