David Herbert Lawrence Quotes

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

I don't like your miserable, lonely single 'front name.' It is so limited, so meager. It has no versatility. It is weighted down with the sense of responsibility. It is worn threadbare with much use. It is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat. It is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

The moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the moon that pulls the tides, and the moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomer. When we describe the moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

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.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind -- intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -- quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

Design in art is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.