Lawrence Durrell Quotes

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

Music is only love looking for words.

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

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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.

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

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.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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