966 Quotes by D. H. Lawrence

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The old ideals are dead as nails--nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman--sort of ultimate marriage--and there isn't anything else.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer

Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.

We have lost the art of living, and in the most important science of all, the science of daily life, the science of behavior, we are complete ignoramuses. We have psychology instead.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.