The best Quotes by Lawrence 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.

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

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

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

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

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

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

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

No-one who wanders is every truly lost.

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.

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

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

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

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

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.

A day of traveling will bring a basketful of learning.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.

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

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.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.

I will be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz in the 2024 Presidential Election. I'm voting for Kamala Harris because she fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them.

Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people. Clearly he is having a very difficult time processing that.

It's been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your president. I love the job - but I love my country more.

I am sorry on behalf of most, if not close to all, of Australia at this point. I'm sorry about Raygun and that we broke dancing.

I don't think you understand how Australians work. Once we get a hold of a good quality meme, we drive it into the ground until we die. We're all still dropping the old "I pulled a Bradbury" and that happened over 20 years ago.

I really appreciate the positivity and I'm glad I was able to bring some joy into your lives. That's what I hoped. I didn't realise that would also open the door to so much hate which has, frankly, been pretty devastating.

Don't be afraid to be different, go out there and represent yourself, you never know where that's gonna take you.

Since the day I announced my candidacy, I set out to find a partner who can help unite our nation and move us forward—a fighter for the middle class and patriot who believes in the promise of America. I am here today because I found such a leader: Governor Tim Walz.

Thank you, Kamala Harris, for the trust that you've placed in me. And maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy. I couldn't be prouder to be on this ticket - and to help make you the next President of the United States.

While Walz pretends to support Americans in the Heartland, when the cameras are off, he believes that rural America is "mostly cows and rocks". Walz is obsessed with spreading California's dangerously liberal agenda far and wide.

While it's not very Minnesotan to brag, I've got to brag on our state a little here: We were just ranked #1 in the country for health care.

If giving tax breaks to millionaires created jobs or grew our economy, I would be in favor of them, but they are the same failed policies of the past that just don't work.

I feel like I've got feet firmly in different camps. Between the right of gun ownership and public safety.

You have to understand what caused genocide to happen. Or it will happen again.