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
lonely people complaining
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
blood soul cosmos
My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.
soul killers essentials
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
light water democracy
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
men religion together
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.
humans human-beings
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
children fate bears
That she bear children is not a woman's significance. But that she bear herself, that is her supreme and risky fate.
life positive literature
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
journey soul suffering
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
ethical-principles justice judging
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
laughter men genius
What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
inspirational life dream
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
men animal world
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
air littles would-be
A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.