Quotes By 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
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
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
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence
The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
David Herbert Lawrence
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
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
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
David Herbert Lawrence
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence