Lawrence Durrell Quotes

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

Truth is always paradoxical.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

In contradiction and paradox, you can find truth.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

the truth is often a mixed message

I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

For me, truth cracks open in the places where things do not cohere. That's how life is.

The world is full of contradiction.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

Someone who always has to lie discovers that every one of his lies is true.

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

In Chekhov, everything blends into its opposite, just fractionally, and this is sort of unsettling. And that's why you end up 100 years later asking, 'Is that moment tragic or comic?'

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Life is never free of contradictions.