Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Lawrence Durrell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1912
Born: January 1
Died: 1990
Died: November 8
Autobiographer
Biographer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Visual Artist
Writer
Jullundur
Submit
Eternity
Time
Love
Submits
Arbitration
Cheesy
Anniversary
Richest
More quotes by Lawrence Durrell
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
Lawrence Durrell
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
Lawrence Durrell
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Lawrence Durrell
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Lawrence Durrell
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Lawrence Durrell
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell
Odd, isn't it? He really was the right man for her in a sort of way but then as you know, it is a law of love that the so-called 'right' person always comes to soon or too late.
Lawrence Durrell
The heaviest impact of the work of art is in the guts. Art does not reason. It manhandles you and changes you.
Lawrence Durrell
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment: only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.
Lawrence Durrell
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
I have been thinking about the girl I met last night in the mirror: dark on the marble-ivory white: glossy black hair: deep suspiring eyes in which one's glances sink because they are nervous, curious, turned to sexual curiosity.
Lawrence Durrell
The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.
Lawrence Durrell
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 her true self -- because she does not know where to find it.
Lawrence Durrell
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Lawrence Durrell
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
Lawrence Durrell
