Famous Quotes & Sayings

D. H. Lawrence

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

D. H. Lawrence

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

D. H. Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

D. H. Lawrence

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

D. H. Lawrence

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

D. H. Lawrence

Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)

D. H. Lawrence

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

D. H. Lawrence

The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I’ll do my best. But you’re right. We must rescue ourselves as best we can.

D. H. Lawrence

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

D. H. Lawrence

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

D. H. Lawrence

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

D. H. Lawrence

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

D. H. Lawrence

the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.

D. H. Lawrence

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

D. H. Lawrence

Don't talk to me any more about poetry for months -- unless it is other men's work. I really love verse, even rubbish. But I'm fearfully busy at a novel, and brush all the gossamer of verse off my face.

D. H. Lawrence

We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.

D. H. Lawrence

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show.

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

D. H. Lawrence

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

D. H. Lawrence

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

D. H. Lawrence

A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

D. H. Lawrence

The Spirit of Place [does not] exert its full influence upon a newcomer until the old inhabitant is dead or absorbed. So America.... The moment the last nuclei of Red [Indian] life break up in America, then the white men will have to reckon with the full force of the demon of the continent.

D. H. Lawrence

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

D. H. Lawrence

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

D. H. Lawrence

With a woman, a man always wants to let himself go. And it is precisely with a woman that he should never let himself go ... but stick to his innermost belief and meet her just there.

D. H. Lawrence

Homer was wrong in saying, "Would that strife might pass away from among gods and men!" He did not see that he was praying for the destruction of the universe.

D. H. Lawrence

That's it! When you come to know men, that's how they are: too sensitive in the wrong place.

D. H. Lawrence

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

D. H. Lawrence

For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

D. H. Lawrence

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.

D. H. Lawrence

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

D. H. Lawrence

For how can a man stand, unless he have something sure under his feet. Can a man tread the unstable water all his life, and call that standing? Better give in and drown at once.

D. H. Lawrence

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.