Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Lawrence Durrell (British Biographer)

Lawrence George Durrell (1912–90) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. It has been posthumously suggested that Durrell never had British citizenship, though more accurately, he became defined as a non-patrial in 1968, due to the amendment to the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Hence, he was denied the right to enter or settle in Britain under new laws and had to apply for a visa for each entry. His most famous work is the tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet.

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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.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Travel, Tourism, Chance

Old age is an insult. It’s like being smacked.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Age, Aging

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Travel

Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Truth

Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Music, Words

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

A woman’s best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Letters

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
Topics: Artists, Art, Arts

No one can go on being a rebel too long without turning into an autocrat.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Revolution

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Swearing, Profanity, Vulgarity

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Patriotism

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time… love lavished on absolute fools. Love’s a charity ward, you know.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Charity

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Jealousy

It’s unthinkable not to love—you’d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you’d have to be Philip Larkin.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Love

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Heroism, Heroes/Heroism, Heroes

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: One liners, Wishes

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Music

I’m trying to die correctly, but it’s very difficult, you know.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Death, Dying

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Lawrence Durrell
Topics: Love

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