“What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality.” DesireSexPoetsSentimentD H LawrenceLady Chatterley S Lover Book:Lady Chatterley’s Lover Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“He felt as if his life were dead. His soul was extinct. The whole being of him had become sterile, he was a spectre, divorced from life. He had no fullness, he was just a flat shape. Day by day the madness accumulated in him. The horror of not-being possessed him.” LifeDesireBelongingBeing Book:The Rainbow Source: The Rainbow
“Some sort of perversity in our souls makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want. We have to fight against that.” DesireSelf Deprivation Book:Sons and Lovers Source: Sons and Lovers
“She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.” DesirePassionAwakening Book:Lady Chatterley’s Lover Source: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“You're always begging things to love you as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them -- 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.” LoveRomanceDesireFictionLongingEmptinessFiction NovelDh LawrenceVoidness Book:Sons and Lovers Source: Sons and Lovers