It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Quote by Lawrence Durrell

Topics: Love Quotes

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

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

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

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

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

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

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

Truth disappears with the telling of it.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her,...

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

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

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

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it...

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.