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
liberty individual esteem
I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?
god struggle dark
The history of the cosmos is the history of the struggle of becoming. When the dim flux of unformed life struggled, convulsed back and forth upon itself, and broke at last into light and dark came into existence as light, came into existence as cold shadow then every atom of the cosmos trembled with delight.
life-lesson mistake two
If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.
moon leader sun
He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.
sweet war home
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.
loss masturbation
In masturbation there is nothing but loss.
fun ifs values
If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.
autumn scent november
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
broken-heart wall break-out
And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.
wisdom soul morality
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.
marriage sphinx decree
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
luck want literature
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
rome america evil
Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still
serious aristocracy consciousness
The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness.