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
cute-love love nervous philip severe
It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
love anniversary valentines-day
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
riches poverty cutters
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
fire mind ignite
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
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!
insult-to-injury age insult
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
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.