D.H.Lawrence Quotes
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn’t got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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.
One could laugh at the world better if it didn’t mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Don’t be on the side of the angels, it’s too lowering.
The day of the absolute is over, and we’re in for the strange gods once more.
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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.
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.
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.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.