Quotes By David Herbert Lawrence

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

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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

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

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.