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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.
— D. H. Lawrence
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
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
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
— D. H. Lawrence
People always make war when they say they love peace.
— D. H. Lawrence
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
— D. H. 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.
— D. H. Lawrence
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
— D. H. Lawrence
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
— D. H. Lawrence
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
— D. H. Lawrence
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
— D. H. Lawrence
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
— D. H. Lawrence
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
— D. H. Lawrence
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
— D. H. Lawrence
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
— D. H. Lawrence
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
— D. H. Lawrence
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
— D. H. Lawrence
The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
— D. H. Lawrence
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
— D. H. Lawrence
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
— D. H. 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.
— D. H. Lawrence
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
— D. H. Lawrence
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
— D. H. Lawrence
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
— D. H. Lawrence
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.
— D. H. Lawrence
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.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
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
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
— D. H. Lawrence
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
— D. H. Lawrence
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
— D. H. 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.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
— D. H. Lawrence
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.
— D. H. Lawrence
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
— D. H. Lawrence
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
— D. H. Lawrence
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
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
— D. H. Lawrence
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
— D. H. Lawrence
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
— D. H. Lawrence
It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
— D. H. Lawrence
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
— D. H. Lawrence
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.
— D. H. Lawrence
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
— D. H. Lawrence
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
— D. H. Lawrence
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
— D. H. Lawrence
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
— D. H. Lawrence
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
— D. H. Lawrence
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
— D. H. 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.
— D. H. Lawrence
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