David Herbert Lawrence

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#brutality #could #kindliness #laugh #mix

People always make war when they say they love peace. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #love #make #people #say

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#consciousness #death #even #forgetting #homogeneous

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#beauty #bread #human #human soul #more

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#end #garden #gate #hyena #morality

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#away #dissolves #gold #like #strong

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#crammed #know #knowing #laughs #merely

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#die #life #live #mechanically #repetition

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#back #california #effort #empty #false

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#i #life #live #my life #nights