Quotes from DH Lawrence

People always make war when they say they love peace.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Where sanity is there God is.

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

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods, come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my creed.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.