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
sex long feelings
There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.
country sex real
That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.
self pity surface
Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.
men passing-away might
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.
change swings profound
Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.
sex apples space
There is a brief time for sex, and a long time when sex is out of place. But when it is out of place as an activity there still should be the large and quiet space in the consciousness where it lives quiescent. Old people can have a lovely quiescent sort of sex, like apples, leaving the young quite free for their sort.
jesus religion dry
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
art passion stuff
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art -- or almost the only stuff.
marriage wisdom love-you
Your most vital necessity in this life is that you shall love your wife completely and implicitly and in an entire nakedness of body and spirit.... this that I tell you is my message as far as I've got any.
wisdom science egypt
The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.
bible wisdom flames
I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.
self devil casting
It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.
race dust civilization
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.
sex thinking society
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.