David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
David Herbert Lawrence
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
David Herbert Lawrence
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
David Herbert Lawrence
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
David Herbert Lawrence
California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
David Herbert Lawrence
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
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 swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert Lawrence
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence
Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert Lawrence
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
David Herbert Lawrence
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence
God doesn't know things. He is things.
David Herbert Lawrence
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence
God is only a great imaginative experience.
David Herbert Lawrence
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
David Herbert Lawrence
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