D. H. Lawrence - Quodid

About

Picture of D. H. Lawrence

David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, literary critic, travel writer, essayist, and painter. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialisation, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Four of his most famous novels – Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence is sometimes cited as:

D.H. Lawrence

Quotes from D. H. Lawrence

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything.

—D. H. Lawrence

love life ideas

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

—D. H. Lawrence

Man fixes some wonderful erection of his own between himself and the wild chaos, and gradually goes bleached and stifled under his parasol. Then comes a poet, enemy of convention, and makes a slit in the umbrella; and lo! the glimpse of chaos is a vision, a window to the sun.

—D. H. Lawrence

accomplishment man chaos

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have, it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

—D. H. Lawrence

life living soul body

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.

—D. H. Lawrence

democracy money vulgarity prices wages

I close your ear with kisses and seal your nostrils, and round your neck you'll wear — nay, let me work — a delicate chain of kisses. Like beads they go around and not one misses to touch its fellow on either side.

—D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future. But we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

—D. H. Lawrence

hope future tragedy habit

Sometimes snakes can't slough. They can't burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don't care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.

—D. H. Lawrence

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

—D. H. Lawrence

beauty nature earth manure

Drink and carouse with Bacchus / or eat dry bread with Jesus, / But don't sit down without one of the Gods.

—D. H. Lawrence

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

—D. H. Lawrence

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

—D. H. Lawrence

I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It's amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.

—D. H. Lawrence

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

—D. H. Lawrence

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

—D. H. Lawrence

1
2
›