Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

About D. H. Lawrence:

David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

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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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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 ...

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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 sw...

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

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

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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.

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

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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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They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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

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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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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.

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Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

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

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

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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

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

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Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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Author Bio

  • NameD. H. Lawrence
  • DescriptionEnglish novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter
  • AliasesDavid Herbert Lawrence; Lawrence H. Davison; D.H. Lawrence
  • BornMay 11, 1885
  • DiedMarch 2, 1930
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPlaywright; Translator; Writer; Poet; Novelist; Painter
  • WorksSons And Lovers; The Rainbow; Women In Love; Lady Chatterley's Lover
  • AwardsJames Tait Black Memorial Prize