D. H. Lawrence Quotes
1885–1930 England
David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H.
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Also known as: D.H. Lawrence
56 quotes
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me!
God is only a great imaginative experience.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear!
Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.
"I suppose that's what we do in death⎯⎯⎯sleep in wonder."
To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.
I refuse to name the gods, because they have no name.
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