Famous Quotes

Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

• The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
• The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
• The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
• 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.
• The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
• The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.
• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.
• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.
• They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.