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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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

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If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

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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.

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All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

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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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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

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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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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

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

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

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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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Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

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

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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

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

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

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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.

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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