David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Sorry, Small, Dead

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I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Live, Regrets

Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
David Herbert Lawrence

Communication, Nothing, Passion

In every living thing there is the desire for love.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Living, Desire

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence

Freedom, Hard, Before

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Anger, Angry, Justice

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
David Herbert Lawrence

Evil, Makes, Secret

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Love, God

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Her, She

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Good, Through

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Business, Between

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

Life, Love, Law

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
David Herbert Lawrence

Fear, Christian, Whole

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

End, Getting, Ourselves

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, God, Morning

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence

Change, Justice, Ethics

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
David Herbert Lawrence

Time, Wise, Bad

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, True, Animal

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.
David Herbert Lawrence

Love, Positive, Yourself

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
David Herbert Lawrence

Flower, Alive, Bird

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Death, Beautiful

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Sad, Mothers

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death, Down, Another

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
David Herbert Lawrence

Men, Fear, Animal

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
David Herbert Lawrence

Laugh, Tender, Brutality

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11, 1885

Died: March 2, 1930

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