D. H. Lawrence Quotes

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

There is nothing to fear as much as fear.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

True it is that each of us has only one life - but how many of us 'die a thousand deaths' in fear and nervousness!

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

The fear's as bad as falling.

Afraid of decision, I buried my finer feelings in the depths of my heart and they died there.

Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.

Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that I wanted them to catch me and beat me. Why did I want to be punished? Shadows out of the past clutch at my legs and drag me down. I open my mouth to scream, but I am voiceless. My hands are trembling, I feel cold, and there is a distant humming in my ears.

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

...And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

Worry is fear in disguise. And fear will eat you from the inside out if you let it.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something--anything--before it is all gone.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness.