Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

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

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 world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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

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.

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.

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

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

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