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
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.
love
You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.
art vision alive
The picture must all come out of the artist's inside. It is the image that lives in the consciousness, alive like a vision, but unknown.
lying lambs lions
No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.
intuition desire instinct
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
growing-up responsibility steps
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.
inspirational beauty soul
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
self games people
When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.