D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.”

“One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.”

“Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.”

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

“The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.”

“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”

“My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.”

“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 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 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.”