Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — 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
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