Quotes by David Herbert Law rence

Quotes by David Herbert Law rence

——You don'twant 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.

Source:Sons and Lovers

——When love enters,the whole spiritual constitution of a man changes,is filled with the Holy Ghost,and almost his form is altered.

Source:Sons and Lovers

——Only now it had become indispensable to him to have her face pressed close to him;he could never let her go again.He could never let her head go away from the close clutch of his arm.He wanted to remain like that forever,with his heart hurting him in a pain that was also life to him.

Source:The Horse Dealer's Daughter

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

Source:Lady Chatterley's Lover

——But better die than livemechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Source:Women in Love

——Never trust the artist.Trust the tale.The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artistwho created it.

Source:Studies in Classic American Literature

——Men!The only animal in the world to fear!

Source:Mountain Lion

——Pornography is the attempt to insult sex,to do dirt on it.

Source:Pornography and Obscenity

——To the Puritan all things are impure,as somebody says.

Source:Sketches of Etruscan Places