D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

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

“There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.”

“For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.”

“It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.”

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