The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Only at his maximum does an individual surpass all his derivative elements, and become purely himself. And most people never get there.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The purest lesson our era has taught is that man, at his highest, is an individual, single, isolate, alone, in direct soul-communication… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Humanity is less, far less than the individual, because the individual may sometimes be capable of truth, and humanity is a tree… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual? — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing softly, and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of a flower down the darker and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close.… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image