Lawrence Durrell Quotes
- A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
- 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…
- A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
- Music is only love looking for words.
- 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…
- Truth disappears with the telling of it.
- I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
- History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
- 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.
- We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
- 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…
- There is no pain compared to that of loving a woman who makes her body accessible to one and yet who is incapable of delivering…
- Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
- These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,…
- What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?
- The effective in art is what rapes the emotions of your audience without nourishing its values.
- …I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as…
- Gamblers and lovers really play to lose.
- Art like life is an open secret.
- Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.