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D. H. Lawrence Quotes | Quotes said by D. H. Lawrence

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #1

    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.


  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #2

    Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #3

    Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #4

    Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #5

    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.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #6

    Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #7

    I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #8

    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.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #9

    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 reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #10

    It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #11

    Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #12

    Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #13

    Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #14

    Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #15

    Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #16

    My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #17

    My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #18

    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.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #19

    Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #20

    Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #21

    People always make war when they say they love peace.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #22

    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.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #23

    Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #24

    So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #25

    The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #26

    The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #27

    The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #28

    The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #29

    The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  • D. H. Lawrence Quote #30

    The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

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