David Herbert Lawrence
Born in September 11, 1885 / Died in March 2, 1930 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
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.
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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.
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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.
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.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
