Quotes By David Herbert Lawrence
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
David Herbert Lawrence
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
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
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
David Herbert Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
David Herbert Lawrence
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
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
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
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
David Herbert Lawrence
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
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