David Herbert Lawrence
Born in September 11, 1885 / Died in March 2, 1930 / United Kingdom / English
Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
I shall always be a priest of love.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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!
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
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.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
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.
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.
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
