Quotes from DH Lawrence
Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.
- DH Lawrence
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
- DH Lawrence
That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.
- DH Lawrence
One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.
- DH Lawrence
Tragedy looks to me like man in love with his own defeat. Which is only a sloppy way of being in love with yourself.
- DH Lawrence
Gods die with men who have conceived them. But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.
- DH Lawrence
When man has nothing but his will to assert--even his good-will--it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.
- DH Lawrence
Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
- DH Lawrence
Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
- DH Lawrence
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)
- DH Lawrence
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
- DH Lawrence
And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.
- DH Lawrence