Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs. D. H. Lawrence pride leadership dark The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites. D. H. Lawrence distance stars morning I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. D. H. Lawrence self men believe 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. D. H. Lawrence reading book art I shall always be a priest of love. D. H. Lawrence priests love [U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force. D. H. Lawrence women belief safe My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune. D. H. Lawrence assets my-soul soul Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage. D. H. Lawrence marriage religious blow Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars. D. H. Lawrence cosmos marriage stars and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin D. H. Lawrence gay dark blood The tiny fish enjoy themselves D. H. Lawrence tiny enjoy sea I see a redness suddenly come D. H. Lawrence evening anxious home The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret. D. H. Lawrence hate attitude dirty Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. D. H. Lawrence different would-be two The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell D. H. Lawrence lovely body sea And can a man his own quietus make D. H. Lawrence suicide men Persephone herself is but a voice D. H. Lawrence passion voice dark Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster. D. H. Lawrence europe america lobster Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority. D. H. Lawrence equality responsibility leadership God is only a great imaginative experience. D. H. Lawrence atheism fake-people god
