D. H. Lawrence Quotes
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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.
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Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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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.
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
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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.
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God is only a great imaginative experience.
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Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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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.
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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.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
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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.
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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.