David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
David Herbert Lawrence

Men, Freedom, Chains

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Money, Madness, Collective

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
David Herbert Lawrence

Experience, Deep, Human

Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Literature, Oh

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
David Herbert Lawrence

Girl, Everything, Her

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Happiness, Business

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence

Nature, Flower, Earth

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
David Herbert Lawrence

Great, Humanity, Learn

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.
David Herbert Lawrence

Woman, Giving, Free

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
David Herbert Lawrence

Study, Mankind, Proper

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
David Herbert Lawrence

Dreams, Men, Sleep

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
David Herbert Lawrence

Land, Somewhere, Edge

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence

Truth, True, Memory

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.
David Herbert Lawrence

Side, Angels, Lowering

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, America, Old

God doesn't know things. He is things.
David Herbert Lawrence

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
David Herbert Lawrence

God, Hate, Young

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
David Herbert Lawrence

Life, Human, Self

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art, Book, Walk

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
David Herbert Lawrence

Stupid, Moving, Themselves

I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
David Herbert Lawrence

Care, Mean, Thinking

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
David Herbert Lawrence

Business, Hate, Actor

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
David Herbert Lawrence

Important, Far, Hold

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
David Herbert Lawrence

Good, Write, Sneeze

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
David Herbert Lawrence

Shall, Dogs, Steps

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: September 11, 1885

Died: March 2, 1930

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