Quotes By David Herbert Lawrence

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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!

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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.