D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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.

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.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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.

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.