Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Art like life is an open secret.

And I saw her as a sad thirtieth child of Valentine that fell, not as Lucifer rebelling against God,...

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...

Love is poetry plus biology.

Music is only love looking for words.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it ha...

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, ...

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Each of our five senses contains an art.

The steward, according to custom, had stopped all the clocks. This, in the language of Narouz, said,...

... history - the lamp which illumines national character...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them...

Bessie was News, Leaders, and Gossip; Enid was Features, Make-up and general Sub. Whenever they were...

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

It is hard to fight with one's heart's desires; whatever it wishes to get, it purchases at the cost ...

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the b...

Underneath an artist's preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. (all the staple abstractions...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supern...

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never una...

It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need ...

You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I ex...

the desire to be near the beloved object is at first not due to the idea of possessing it, but simpl...