Lawrence Durrell Quotes

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell

Jealousy, Love, Blind

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
Lawrence Durrell

Time, Loneliness, Night

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

Love, Time, Richest

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell

Music, Loneliness, Human

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

Men, Laughter, Young

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell

City, Loves, Becomes

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
Lawrence Durrell

Free, Imagine, Belong

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.
Lawrence Durrell

Love, Woman, Done

Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell

Truth, Telling, Disappears

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell

Love, Best, Woman

Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell

Love, Music, Words

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell

Secret, Mirror, Wishes

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell

Truth, Cannot, Rather

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.
Lawrence Durrell

Women, Love, Time

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell

Country, Everyone, Artist

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell

Life, Art, True

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell

Lie, Guilt, Punishment

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

History, Living, Wrong

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell

Trying, Die, Difficult

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else.
Lawrence Durrell

Energy, Else, Write

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell

Long, Rebel, Turning

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

Age, Old, Insult

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

Travel, Rewarding, Forms

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell

Children, Thought, Behavior

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Writer

Born: January 27, 1912

Died: November 7, 1990

Links

Find on Amazon: Lawrence Durrell

Cite this Page: Citation

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Related Authors

Jane Austen
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mary Wollstonecraft
James Herriot
Philip Pullman
Alan Moore
Norman Douglas
More

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us