Quote

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

Lawrence Durrell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Traveler
Forms
Travel
Journey
Form
Introspection
Rewarding

More quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Image
Art like life is an open secret.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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
Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
Image
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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
Image
Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
You see, nothing matters except pleasure - which is the opposite of happiness, its tragic part, I expect.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
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.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
He thought and suffered a good deal but he lacked the resolution to dare--the first requisite of a practitioner.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Let us define 'man' as a poet perpetually conspiring against himself.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Life is like a cucumber. One minute it's in your hand, the next it's up you ass.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.
Lawrence Durrell
Image
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell