The best Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

The best Quotes by Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell CBE (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. He was the eldest brother of naturalist and writer Gerald Durrell.

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

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

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.

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.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

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Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

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The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

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Books Traveling World

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14

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He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

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Traveling Languages

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Rory Freedman

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Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

Ernest Hemingway

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I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Traveling Wanderlust

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

Jules Verne in Around the World in Eighty Days

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No-one who wanders is every truly lost.

Ivern, the Green Father in League of Legends

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Traveling Wandern

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.

Miriam Adeney (Author, Associate Professor of World Christian Studies)

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Traveling Home Wanderlust

Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.

Alan Rickman

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Traveling Trains Ships Airplanes

Facism is cured by reading, and racism is cured by traveling.

Miguel de Unamuno

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Tolerance Traveling Reading

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Steven Wright

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Traveling Walking & Going

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.

Margot Fonteyn

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Traveling Wanderlust

A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning.

Vietnamese Saying

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Paul Theroux

Traveling Tourists

You'll learn more about a road by traveling it than by consulting all the maps in the world.

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

Paulo Coelho

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

Michael Palin

Traveling for the first time has something very touching to it.

Alexander von Humboldt

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Traveling Tourists

Every single journey that I've embarked on, I've learned something new.

Shailene Woodley

We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Maria Mitchell

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

Ella Maillart

One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.

Ella Maillart

Tolerance Traveling

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education. In order to appreciate cultures of another nation, one needs to go there, know the people and mingle with the culture of that country. One way to do that, if one is lucky enough, is to buy things from those cultures.

David Rockefeller

Tolerance Traveling

Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.

Jaime Lyn Beatty

Traveling Adventures

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

John Steinbeck

Memories Traveling

I've been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

Bonnie Raitt

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

There are well over 250 victims, so we have to make sure that their identity is protected. Other than that, I think tomorrow you're gonna see some Epstein information being released by my office. What you're gonna see is a lot of flight-logs, a lot of names, a lot of information.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

The people of the FBI are sworn to protect both security and liberty. It isn't a question of conflict. We must care deeply about protecting liberty through due process of law, while also safeguarding the citizens we serve - in every investigation.

James Comey

It's sitting on my desk right now to review. The Trump administration is committed to truth and transparency.

Pam Bondi - February 2025

The Epstein Files

It's a very delicate subject but we should put everything out there and let the people decide it.

Mike Johnson - July 2025

The Epstein Files

All I'm going to say is I put my hand on a Bible, and I raised my right hand and swore to uphold the Constitution of the state of Florida.

Historically, there has been a clear and essential connection between marriage and responsible procreation and child rearing.

Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.

Anyone who attacks our LGBT community, anyone who attacks anyone in our state, will be gone after with the full extent of the law.

All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

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