D H Lawrence quotes - Page : 4

" Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. " # Ethics # Change # Punctuality

" This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten. " # Evil # Passion # Wickedness

" The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. " # Flowers # Love # Nature

" We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. " # Generations # Freedom # Power

" America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact. " # America # Freedom # Power

" America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it. " # America # Freedom # Power

" God is only a great imaginative experience. " # God # Freedom # Power

" I cannot be a materialist -- but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery -- such suffering, such dreadful suffering -- and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all? " # God # Freedom # Power

" The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man. " # Horses # Action # Power

" That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. " # Insects # Power # Friends and Friendship