The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered. D. H. Lawrence More Quotes by D. H. Lawrence More Quotes From D. H. Lawrence There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea. D. H. Lawrence mackerel mass sea You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused. You're spending your vitality without making any. Can't go on you know. Depression! Avoid depression! D. H. Lawrence spending vitality goes-on The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. D. H. Lawrence intuition body mind I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C. D. H. Lawrence civilization sex dirty The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused. D. H. Lawrence confused spiritual lying Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. D. H. Lawrence age birthday knowledge The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. D. H. Lawrence clothes house class Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. D. H. Lawrence comeback dirt sex The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. D. H. Lawrence perfection can-do men When love enters, the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes, is filled with the Holy Ghost, and almost his form is altered. D. H. Lawrence spiritual love men When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder. D. H. Lawrence wonder-of-life elements love And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in. D. H. Lawrence fit artist world Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity. D. H. Lawrence eye sight knowledge If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. D. H. Lawrence women dry literature Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion. D. H. Lawrence passion literature beautiful It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone. D. H. Lawrence women religious god There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us. D. H. Lawrence dragons moon blood Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love. D. H. Lawrence false-love emotional sex The only principle I can see in this life, is that one must forfeit the less for the greater. D. H. Lawrence forfeit principles life-is How the horse dominated the mind of the early races especially of the Mediterranean! You were a lord if you had a horse. Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances...The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action in man! D. H. Lawrence horse dark men
