Don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
Recklessness is almost a man’s revenge on his woman. He feels he is not valued so he will risk destroying himself to deprive her altogether.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
The dead don’t die. They look on and help.
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.
I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
The tragedy is when you’ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.
I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.
That she bear children is not a woman’s significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.