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108 quotes by D. H. Lawrence

D. H. Lawrence Born David Herbert Richards Lawrence (1885-09-11)11 September 1885 Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England Died 2 March 1930(1930-03-02) (aged 44) Vence, France Occupation Novelist, poet Nationality English Alma mater University of Nottingham Period 1907–1930 Genre Modernism Notable works Novel: Sons and Lovers The Rainbow Women in Love Lady Chatterley's Lover Short Story: Odour of Chrysanthemums The Virgin and the Gypsy The...
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

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God is only a great imaginative experience.

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I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

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The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

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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... →

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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... →

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I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent.... →

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it... →

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