D.H. Lawrence Quotations

Viewing quotes 1 to 18 (18 total)

I am a man, and alive.... For this reason I am a novelist. And being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, the scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Writing]

The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Perspective]

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Action]

Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Conformity]

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Dreams]

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Friendship]

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.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Religion]

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Humankind]

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Generations] [Freedom]

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Psychology]

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Housework] [Labor]

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Self]

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Society]

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Passion]

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Body]

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Language]

California is a queer place - in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific.... It's sort of crazy-sensible. Just the moment: hardly as far ahead as carpe diem.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Places]

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
	- D.H. Lawrence	more quotations on [Letters]

Viewing quotes 1 to 18 (18 total)

[page 1]