The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. David Herbert Lawrence on death
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. David Herbert Lawrence on design
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. David Herbert Lawrence on dreams
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. David Herbert Lawrence on dreams
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. David Herbert Lawrence on experience
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. David Herbert Lawrence on experience
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man. David Herbert Lawrence on fear
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. David Herbert Lawrence on freedom
Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. David Herbert Lawrence on freedom
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. David Herbert Lawrence on god
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 god
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect. David Herbert Lawrence on happiness
So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. David Herbert Lawrence on happiness
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. David Herbert Lawrence on history
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. David Herbert Lawrence on home
It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance. David Herbert Lawrence on humor
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. David Herbert Lawrence on intelligence
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. David Herbert Lawrence on knowledge