D. H. Lawrence Quotes about War

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People always make war when they say they love peace.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

D. H. Lawrence

Love, Peace, War

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.492, ReadHowYouWant.com

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

D. H. Lawrence

War, Literature, Propaganda

D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.153, ReadHowYouWant.com

I believe that there was a great age, a great epoch when man did not make war: previous to 2000 B.C. Then the self had not reallybecome aware of itself, it had not separated itself off, the spirit was not yet born, so there was no internal conflict, and hence no permanent external conflict.

D. H. Lawrence

War, Believe, Men

D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.172, Cambridge University Press

I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

D. H. Lawrence

Death, War, Black

The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war.

D. H. Lawrence

Sweet, War, Home

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

D. H. Lawrence

War, Home, Heart

D. H. Lawrence, George J. Zytaruk, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.233, Cambridge University Press