FastSaying

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

LustMankind

Related Quotes

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
— D.H. Lawrence
ConscienceConsciousnessDeath
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
— D. H. Lawrence
DeityHisMan
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny
LustMankindWealth
The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
— Pliny The Elder
LustMankindWealth
My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
— D. H. Lawrence
AddBetweenBlessed