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 self suffering
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
paris what-matters joy
Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?
dream healing past
At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.
hypocrisy people bluffs
Happiness was a term of hypocrisy used to bluff other people.
reality hypocrisy over-it
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
believe men soul
How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?
dust turns substitution
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
world intricacy ghastly
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
women function
A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.
children fall mean
It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.
sleep three drink
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
sex closest
Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.
insanity idiot lost
If we lose our sanity ... We can but howl the lugubrious howl of idiots, the howl of the utterly lost howling their nowhereness.
parent elements combination
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.