Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

Life is a series of dogs.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

You're never safe from being surprised until you're dead.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

People who think they know what is going to happen next are fools. Surprises - or what the brilliant author Nassim Taleb calls 'Black Swans' - are inevitable. Some are likely to be desperately unpleasant too

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

Things can change in the blink of an eye!

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.

How plotless real life was!

Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Life doesn't tend to fix things or wrap them up in bows.

Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.