Quotes from DH Lawrence
And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.
— DH Lawrence
If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.
— DH Lawrence
It's not art for art's sake, it's art for my sake.
— DH Lawrence
Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
— DH Lawrence
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
— DH Lawrence
One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
— DH Lawrence
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
— DH Lawrence
No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.
— DH Lawrence
How beastly the bourgeois isespecially the male of the species.
— DH Lawrence
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
— DH Lawrence
I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
— DH Lawrence
Build then the ship of death, for you must take the longest journey, to oblivion.
— DH Lawrence