D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have spent seventy years finding out that I am not God.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

If you asked me what is the basis of all my work, it's the feeling there's something basically wrong with human beings.

I think God has a tremendous sense of humor.

I'm totally human.

any system, in which the final decisions are referred to human beings, and in which the source of all authority are human, is doomed to failure because it deifies human beings by designating others than God as lords over men.

To expect this larger-than-life, holier-than-thou sort of existence from us is not possible. We as much want to make our own mistake as a man does.

There are things you have to look at with those world-class players, but at the end of the day, they're not superheroes. They're still human.

The meaningless absurdity of life is the only incontestable knowledge accessible to man.

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.

I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.

A lot of people say, 'Hey, God doesn't have a sense of humor.' Yes, He does. God has a great sense of humor.