David Herbert Lawrence

One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#know #never

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#books #emotions #master #presents #repeats

Only in a novel are all things given full play. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#full #given #novel #only #play

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#conscious #excessively #feel #know #little

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#essentially #ours #refuse #take #tragic

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#disguise #entirely #faculty #man #moral

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#got #haven #off #really #working

Since obscenity is the truth of our passion today, it is the only stuff of art - or almost the only stuff. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #obscenity #only #our #passion

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#feel #happiness #life #long #matter

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#her #man #perfection #portray #thing