Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
---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.
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 for ever, 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 live mechanically 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 artist who 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
David Herbert Lawrence
I. Brief Introduction to the Writer
1. Life Story
David Herbert Lawrence is English novelist, storywriter, critic and poet of the 20th century, and perhaps the greatest novelist from a working-class family. Lawrence was born in Eastwood, which is at a mining village in Nottinghamshire, central England. His father was a coal-miner with little education, who was a heavy drinker. His mother, once a school teacher, was from a middle class family, greatly superior in education to her husband. The differences in Lawrence's parents backgrounds often led to family conflict. His father preferred to spend his wages on drink to deaden the pain of working long hours underground, whilst his mother was more concerned with the children's upbringing, welfare, and education. The mother thought she had married beneath her own class and desired to raise the cultural level of her sons so as to help them escape from the life of the coal miners.