#ay

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#geniuses #great #mostly #mothers #sad

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #complete #final #gathered #man

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

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#animal #bit #dies #last #leave

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

— David Herbert Lawrence

#always #chains #freedom #freest #most

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#being #belief #believes #bit #blood

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. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#enjoy #fellow #fellow man #find #god

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#europe #good #lobster #mayonnaise #old

I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#anything #close #doing #i #mountains

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#another #apart #gentle #grow #hearts