All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps. Dog
- Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent. Imminent
- Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. Chains
- My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily. Easily
- Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. Artist
- 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… Alas
- 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
- Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. Away Entirely
- The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. Earth
- The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. Creature
- The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? Artemis
- The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. Deities
- The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. Dangerous
- The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. Always Substitutes
- Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. Big
- We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. Authority
- It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a… Blind
- 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… Alexander
- 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… Adding
- I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman… Fall
- Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul,… Attempt
- California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely… Absolutely
- Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize… Art
- God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more… Certain
- 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… Close