David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it.. view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say.. view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

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

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

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... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Men! The only animal in the world to fear... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

God doesn't know things. He is things... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

God is only a great imaginative experience... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive... view

By: David Herbert Lawrence