Mind Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

— D. H. Lawrence

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than…

— D. H. Lawrence

“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

— D. H. Lawrence

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like…

— D. H. Lawrence

I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet…

— D. H. Lawrence

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness,…

— D. H. Lawrence

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,…

— D. H. Lawrence

I'm not sure if a mental relation with a woman doesn't make it impossible to love her. To know the mind of…

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For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.…

— D. H. Lawrence

How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a…

— D. H. Lawrence

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in…

— D. H. Lawrence

In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros…

— D. H. Lawrence

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls…

— D. H. Lawrence

... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not…

— D. H. Lawrence

That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their…

— D. H. Lawrence