Lawrence Durrell Quotes

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

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

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

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

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.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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

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

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

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