D. H. Lawrence Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.”

“Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.”

“God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.”

“A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.”

“The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.”

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

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

“Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.”

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

“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”