Famous Quotes by D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
- I want the wonder back again, or I shall die. More
- Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind... More
- Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. More
- She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His... More
- Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort... More
- Always this same morbid interest in other people and their doings, their privacies, their dirty... More
- Every new stroke of civilization has cost the lives of countless brave men, who have fallen... More
- The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just,... More
- I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the... More
- Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to... More
- Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away.... More
- There is the Christianity of tenderness. But ... it is utterly pushed aside by the Christianity... More
- When man has neither the strength to subdue his underworld powers—which are really the ancient... More
- There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital... More
- Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society... More
- A book lives as long as it is unfathomed. More
- The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. More
- The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. More
- Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a... More
- For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme... More
- Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there... More
- Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way... More
- And this is the real point of [Lady Chatterley’s Lover]. I want men and women to be able to... More
- Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in... More
- Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of... More
- A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that... More
- We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The... More
- Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his... More
- Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the... More
- [Man’s] life consists in a relation with all things: stone, earth, trees, flowers, water,... More
- Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the... More
- The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always... More
- Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don’t get on very well with the... More
- Europe is, perhaps, the least worn-out of the continents, because it is the most lived in. A... More
- Lad, thou hast gotten a child in me,
Laddie, a man thou’lt ha’e to be,
Yea, though... More
- At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio . . .
Changing... More
- A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes... More
- Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside... More
- Persephone herself is but a voice
or a darkness invisible enfolded in the deeper dark
of... More
- Reach me a gentian, give me a torch!
let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this... More
- Man is a thought-adventurer. More
- There is only one evil, to deny life
As Rome denied Etruria
And mechanical America... More
- The goal is to know how not-to-know. More
- I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more... More
- When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this... More
- Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point to love. More
- Marriage and deathless friendship, both should be inviolable and sacred: two great creative... More
- Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a... More
- We have lost the art of living; and in the most important science of all, the science of daily... More
- To the Puritan, all things are impure, as somebody says. More
- Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds,... More
- Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment... More
- It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect.... More
- Museums, museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of... More
- The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and... More
- The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes... More
- I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would... More
- They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. More
- The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast... More
- It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man’s own religious soul that drives him... More
- The final aim is not to know, but to be.... You’ve got to know yourself so that you can at last... More
- We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is... More
- Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely... More
- No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer. More
- Why were we driven out of Paradise? Why did we fall into this gnawing disease of unappeasable... More
- Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see,... More
- You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife... More
- Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly... More
- The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of... More
- Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure... More
- The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own... More
- I am not the measure of creation.
This is beyond me, this fish.
His God stands outside my... More
- Along the avenue of cypresses,
All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices
Of linen, go the... More
- The real trouble about women is that they must always go on trying to adapt themselves to men’s... More
- When she rises in the morning
I linger to watch her; More
- her swung breasts
Sway like full-blown yellow
Gloire de Dijon roses. More
- Isn’t it god’s own image? tramping his thirty miles a day
after partridges, or a little... More
- How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species— More
- And even so, he’s stale, he’s been there too long.
Touch him, and you’ll find he’s... More
- I believe there were no flowers then,
In the world where the humming-bird flashed ahead of... More
- My love lies underground
With her face upturned to mine,
And her mouth unclosed in a last... More
- Grief, grief, I suppose and sufficient
Grief makes us free
To be faithless and faithful... More
- Grief makes us free
To be faithless and faithful together
As we have to be. More
- The upshot was, my paintings must burn
that English artists might finally learn. More
- That is almost the whole of Russian literature: the phenomenal coruscations of the souls of quite... More
- The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a... More
- I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000... More
- Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going... More
- Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an... More
- We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. More
- The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what... More
- The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is... More
- The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. More
- The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the... More
- That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the... More
- Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic... More
- Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual,... More
- To place absolute trust on another human being is in itself a disaster, both ways, since each... More
- The day of the absolute is over, and we’re in for the strange gods once more. More
- Wistfully watching, with wonderful liquid eyes.
And all her weight, all her blood, dripping... More
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