D. H. Lawrence

Quotes

• “In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. Fr...”
• “Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of h...”
• “Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multi...”
• “Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't...”
• “The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck ...”
• “The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discov...”
• “You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You abs...”
• “There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Mornin...”
• “A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religi...”
• “The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not...”
• “You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ....”
• “Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as t...”
• “The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousnes...”
• “Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and ar...”
• “Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoy...”
• “Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoye...”
• “I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shre...”
• “I got the blues thinking of the future so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shre...”
• “The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the ...”
• “Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chu...”
• “I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like hav...”
• “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorr...”
• “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who create...”
• “There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our ma...”
• “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.”
• “Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.”
• “Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
• “The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.”
• “The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”
• “Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?”
• “Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.”
• “Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”
• “The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.”
• “Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.”
• “They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”
• “Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
• “Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.”
• “What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.”
• “People always make war when they say they love peace.”
• “One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.”
• “The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”
• “Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”
• “It is our business to go as we are impelled.”
• “I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”
• “Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.”
• “Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”
• “Never trust the teller. Trust the tale.”
• “While we live let us live.”