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David Herbert Lawrence Quotes


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

David Herbert Lawrence
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
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.

David Herbert Lawrence
The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

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

David Herbert Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

David Herbert Lawrence
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

David Herbert Lawrence
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
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

David Herbert Lawrence
The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

David Herbert Lawrence
The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

David Herbert Lawrence
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 conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.

David Herbert Lawrence
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
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

David Herbert Lawrence
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

David Herbert Lawrence
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

David Herbert Lawrence
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
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
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
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