There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
David Herbert Lawrence

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert Lawrence

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
David Herbert Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence