Quotes from D. H. Lawrence

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

Isn't it god's own image? tramping his thirty miles a day after partridges, or a little rubber ball? wouldn't you like to be like that, well off, and quite the thing?

Where sanity is there God is.

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

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.

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.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

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

Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

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.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.