top of page
Quote_1.png
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."

Standard 
 Customized
"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."

Exlpore more Life quotes

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Personal Development

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"O fortune fortune! all men call thee fickle."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Many homes are on the rocks today because God has been left out of the domestic picture. With the clash of personalities in a domestic pattern, there must be an integrating force, and the living God is that Force!"

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren't as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter."

Quote_1.png
Amber Hurdle

"The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter."

Explore more quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"Truth disappears with the telling of it."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"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."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"Music was invented to confirm human loneliness."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature."
Quote_1.png
Lawrence Durrell
"I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know."
bottom of page