Lawrence Durrell Quotes

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religion.

I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.

Adoration isn't love.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Love's a disease. But curable.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

'Little Night' comes from deep in my heart, and tells about the lengths people will go for love.

Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.

With love, there are so many layers to it that you can write all day about it. It's not just heartbreak or falling in love; there's so many different ways to look at it.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

It's good to write about love because it never goes out of fashion. And I'm quite a romantic.

Love is one of the only reminders besides pain that things are real. It's one of the only things worth fighting for.

Love makes you do things you can never imagine.

I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he pierced his breast and let his heart's blood turn the white rose red. Maybe this sounds very sentimental, but for anybody who has loved a career as much as I've loved mine, there can be no short cuts.

Colleen McCullough taught me that desire is the heart of romance.

I sing a lot about love.

I'm always in love.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Love is only one of many passions.