D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Richards Lawrencewas an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works, among other things, represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, some of the issues Lawrence explores are emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 September 1885
love folks know-how
My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
inspirational land bounds
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
laughter laughing brutality
One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
life literature repetition
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
knowing laughing atheism
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.
mother fate genius
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
christian men literature
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
literature consciousness ends
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.
strong gold tragedy
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
women literature dry
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
freedom people literature
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
animal totems instinct
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
liberty literature masters
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
anger justice judgement
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.