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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes About Life

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

David Herbert Lawrence

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

David Herbert Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence Quotes About Spiritual

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

David Herbert Lawrence

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

David Herbert Lawrence

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

David Herbert Lawrence

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

David Herbert Lawrence

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

David Herbert Lawrence

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.

David Herbert Lawrence

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

More Quotes 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.

David Herbert Lawrence

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

David Herbert Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

David Herbert Lawrence

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

David Herbert Lawrence

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

David Herbert Lawrence

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

David Herbert Lawrence

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

David Herbert Lawrence

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

David Herbert Lawrence

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

David Herbert Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

David Herbert Lawrence

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

David Herbert Lawrence

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!

David Herbert Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

David Herbert Lawrence

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

David Herbert Lawrence

People always make war when they say they love peace.

David Herbert Lawrence

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

David Herbert Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

David Herbert Lawrence

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

David Herbert Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

David Herbert Lawrence

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

David Herbert Lawrence

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

David Herbert Lawrence

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

David Herbert Lawrence

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

David Herbert Lawrence

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

David Herbert Lawrence

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

David Herbert Lawrence

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

David Herbert Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

David Herbert Lawrence

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

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.

David Herbert Lawrence

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

David Herbert Lawrence

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

David Herbert Lawrence

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