Quotes By David Herbert Lawrence

I shall always be a priest of love.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

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.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

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.

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.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

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.