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
men literature tales
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
god fake-people atheism
God is only a great imaginative experience.
europe america literature
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
memories reality atheism
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
love positive abnormal
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
nature kissing nymphs
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
perfect judging soul
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
birthday age aging
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
love peace war
People always make war when they say they love peace.
believe coal-miners perfect
I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.
wind let-it-go kites
And yet - and yet - one's kite will rise on the wind as far as ever one has string to let it go. It tugs and tugs and will go, and one is glad the further it goes, even if everybody else is nasty about it.
real parent feelings
But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.
strong responsibility wish
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
men enough said
Aren't I enough for you?' she asked. 'No,' he said. 'You are enough for me, as far as a woman is concerned. You are all women to me. But I wanted a man friend, as eternal as you and I are eternal.' (Women in Love)