"The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread." ― David Herbert Lawrence Topic(s): Beauty Tags: actual, human, needs More From David Herbert Lawrence "Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little." "Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion." "Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was." More In Beauty "I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty."― George Byron "Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."― Thomas Jefferson "What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."― John Keats