All D. H. Lawrence Quotes
- I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing… All
- The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. Dream
- That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. Anaesthetic
- ... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old… Delicate
- She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… Asserts
- A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the… Afraid
- After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not… All
- An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality. Artist
- Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness... meaning at-oneness, the state of being at one with the object. Art
- The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Beautiful
- It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. All
- 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,… Arise
- The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs. Belongs
- Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. Attempt
- The chief thing about a woman - who is much of a woman - is that in the long run she is not to be… Any
- The map appears to us more real than the land. Appears
- God doesn't know things. He is things. Funny
- Once you abstract from this, once you generalize and postulate Universals, you have departed from the creative reality, and entered the realm of static fixity,… Abstract
- The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world… Any
- The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there… All
- She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with… Blind
- Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten… All
- Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner… Cannot Live
- Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth… All
- Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions. Every Man