Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

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

“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.”

“They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.”

“Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.”

“Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.”

“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”

“Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.”

“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.”

“Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.”

“You have striven so hard and so long to compel life. Can't you now slowly change and let life slowly drift into you ... let the invisible life steal into you and slowly possess you.”

“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.”

“Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art if it be art will tell you the truth of his day. And that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth live...”

“Love is. the flower of life and blossoms unexpectedly and without law and must be plucked where it is found and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.”

“In the ancient recipe the three antidotes for dullness or boredom are sleep drink and travel. It is rather feeble. From sleep you wake up from drink you become sober and from travel you come h...”

“The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.”

“Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what you've got to say and say it hot.”

“The young Cambridge group the group that stood for "freedom" and flannel trousers and flannel shirts open at the neck and a well-bred sort of emotional anarchy and a whispering murmuring sort ...”

“Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?”

“It is our business to go as we are impelled.”

“What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.”