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David Herbert Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) was an English novelist, poet, and essayist whose work explored the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. His novels — including *Sons and Lovers*, *Women in Love*, and *Lady Chatterley's Lover* — pushed boundaries in their frank treatment of sexuality and emotional life.

“People always make war when they say they love peace.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Peace

All Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

“People always make war when they say they love peace.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Peace

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Experience

“Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Freedom

“Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Age

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

Dreams

“God is only a great imaginative experience.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Experience

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Experience

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Love

“In every living thing there is the desire for love.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Love

“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Business

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

Communication

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Art

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

Truth

“Men! The only animal in the world to fear.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Fear

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

Truth

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Art

“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.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Death

“Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Peace

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

Beauty

“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.”

— David Herbert Lawrence

God