You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. David Herbert Lawrence on love
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. David Herbert Lawrence on men
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. David Herbert Lawrence on morning
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. David Herbert Lawrence on nature
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. David Herbert Lawrence on nature
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere. David Herbert Lawrence on positive
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. David Herbert Lawrence on religion
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. David Herbert Lawrence on religion
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing. David Herbert Lawrence on religion
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. David Herbert Lawrence on sad
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. David Herbert Lawrence on trust
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. David Herbert Lawrence on truth
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth. David Herbert Lawrence on truth
Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. David Herbert Lawrence on truth
All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true. David Herbert Lawrence on truth