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
christian men literature
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
literature consciousness ends
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.
strong gold tragedy
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
women literature dry
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
freedom people literature
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
animal totems instinct
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
liberty literature masters
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
anger justice judgement
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.
real garden literature
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
girl mean teens
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
war literature propaganda
Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.
dog steps invincible
I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
art book reading
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
believe men self
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.