All David Herbert Lawrence Quotes
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
David Herbert Lawrence
44% of people like this quote
The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.
David Herbert Lawrence
44% of people like this quote
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
David Herbert Lawrence
44% of people like this quote
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
43% of people like this quote
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
David Herbert Lawrence
42% of people like this quote
The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
David Herbert Lawrence
42% of people like this quote
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.
David Herbert Lawrence
42% of people like this quote
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
David Herbert Lawrence
40% of people like this quote
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
David Herbert Lawrence
40% of people like this quote
The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
David Herbert Lawrence
39% of people like this quote
Related authors