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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
David Herbert Lawrence