D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I do not want to be civilized. I want to be liberated.

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.

I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

It's so nice to be insane, no one asks you to explain.

Madness is only a variety of mental nonconformity and we are all individualists here.

To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.

If one day I could get out of here, I would allow myself to be crazy. Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don't know they're crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to.

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely #$%^&^& mental.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

But I found that disappointing people is a good thing, because disapproval is freedom.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Conformity is painful. You know, it's too tight. Conformity leads to rebellion. So a desire for happiness is in direct conflict with a desire for freedom.

I don't like rules of any kind. And I seek people who break rules with happiness - and not bringing pain to themselves.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.

Power frees us from the chains of conformity.

Don't tell me I'm crazy. I'm out here acting natural.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.