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
D. H. Lawrence quotes about
falling-in-love men falling-in-love-with-you
I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.
smell doors lilies
It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.
clever lying men
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.
religious might should
One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.
should-have feels realising
One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.
trying nails get-up
If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.
wonder sixth-sense sense-of-wonder
The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.
culture bait drink
Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.
mistake black machines
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.
spiritual games hymns
If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.
sleep three drink
There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.
dust turns substitution
When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.
death wall journey
O pity the dead that are dead, but cannot make the journey, still they moan and beat against the silvery adamant walls of life's exclusive city.
sex flower roots
Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.