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 and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
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 it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
God doesn't know things. He is things.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
God is only a great imaginative experience.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
I shall always be a priest of love.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
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.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
People always make war when they say they love peace.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
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, is intuition.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
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.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
- David Herbert Lawrence Quote
