Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence Durrell
Lawrence George Durrellwas an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 February 1912
Lawrence Durrell quotes about
dark cities echoes
No history much? Perhaps. Only this ominous Dark beauty flowering under veils, Trapped in the spectrum of a dying style: A village like an instinct left to rust, Composed around the echo of a pistol-shot.
women animal burrowing
Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
artist littles today
All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.
loneliness being-alone night
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.
love-life long breathe
I am just a refugee from the long slow toothache of English life. It is terrible to love life so much you can hardly breathe!
love-is enemy warfare
Love is like trench warfare - you cannot see the enemy, but you know he is there and that it is wiser to keep your head down.
long goes-on revolution
No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
insult-to-injury age insult
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
ideas bird branches
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
adults realisation
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
sorrow mass gravitation
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.
opposites matter pleasure
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
truth telling-the-truth disappear
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
funny death trying
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.