Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.
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
Breakdown
Severe
Nervous
Love
Larkin
Philip
Unthinkable
More quotes by 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
'We live' writes Pursewarden somewhere 'lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time — not by our personalities as we like to think. Thus every interpretation oа reality is based upon a unique position. Two paces east or west and the whole picture is changed.
Lawrence Durrell
The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.
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
People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.
Lawrence Durrell
A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
Lawrence Durrell
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
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
All culture corrupts, but French culture corrupts absolutely.
Lawrence Durrell
It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.
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
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.
Lawrence Durrell
Love joins and then divides. How else would we be growing?
Lawrence Durrell
We are the children of our landscape it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.
Lawrence Durrell
To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.
Lawrence Durrell
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Lawrence Durrell
They flower spontaneously out of the demands of our natures - and the best of them lead us not only outward in space, but inward as well.
Lawrence Durrell
Comedians are the nearest to suicide.
Lawrence Durrell
