Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

"Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little."

"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."

"The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind."

"The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment."

"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread."

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."

"Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description."

"Men! The only animal in the world to fear."

"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."

"Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

"In every living thing there is the desire for love."

"You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere."

"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness."

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him."

"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

"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."