David Herbert Lawrence

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure…

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

It is a fine thing to establish one’s own religion in one’s heart, not to…

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again…

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in…

God is only a great imaginative experience…

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread…

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home…

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man…

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding…

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a…

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

Tragedy is like strong acid – it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth…

Men! The only animal in the world to fear…

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what…