David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

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.

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.

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

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

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 selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

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 like senility than anything.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

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