Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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.

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

Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.