Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.

Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Truth is often attended with danger

Love is a dangerous commodity - fraught with peril.

When things seem calmest, that is the time you should fear the most, it's when you have the most to lose.

Human existence is so fragile a thing and exposed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling.

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The road to love is full of danger signs.

The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will al­ways be things you can't protect her from. Things be­yond your control. You finally realize there is something worse than dying . . . and that is having something hap­pen to her. You have to live with that fear always. But you have to take the bad part, if you want the good part." Kev looked at him bleakly. "What's the good part?" A smile touched Cam's lips. "All the rest of it is the good part," he said, and went.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

Love is random; fear is inevitable.

Living safely is dangerous.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

I think love is a huge factor in fiction and in real life. Is there a risk? Always. In fiction and in life.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.