Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

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.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

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.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

Be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you, say what you’ve got to say, and say it hot.