One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
David Herbert Lawrence

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
David Herbert Lawrence

Only in a novel are all things given full play.
David Herbert Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
David Herbert Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
David Herbert Lawrence

People always make war when they say they love peace.
David Herbert Lawrence

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
David Herbert Lawrence

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.
David Herbert Lawrence

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert Lawrence

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.
David Herbert Lawrence

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

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

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
David Herbert Lawrence

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
David Herbert Lawrence

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
David Herbert Lawrence

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