English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Very few people realise that sex is a psychic and not a physical act. The clumsy coupling of human beings is simply a biological paraphrase of this truth - a primitive method of introducing minds to each other, engaging them. But most people are stuck in the physical aspect, unaware of the poetic rapport which it so clumsily tries to teach.

Lawrence Durrell

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Neil Gaiman quote: "Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but..."
Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost. Neil Gaiman
Thomas Huxley quote: "I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything..."
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything... Thomas Huxley
Montserrat Caballe quote: "The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then..."
The moment you say, 'Please, give me a reason for this', then you are being impossible and temperamental. Montserrat Caballe
Ian Somerhalder quote: "What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable."
What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable. Ian Somerhalder
Seriousness is an accident of time. It consists of putting too high a value on time. In eternity there is no time. Eternity is a moment, just long enough for a joke Herman Hesse
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."
And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally. Friedrich Nietzsche
For me, I think that I don't like feeling pressure from outside sources. I'd rather put the pressure on myself and push myself to do it as good as I can. Jay Hernandez
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence. A. J. Jacobs
You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees? Fiona Apple
Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them. W. H. Auden
Franz Kafka quote: "Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man..."
Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live. Franz Kafka
George R. R. Martin quote: "Sing a song if you like?"
Sing a song if you like? George R. R. Martin
It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began. Neil Gaiman
To rule forever," continues the Chinaman, later, "it is necessary only to create, among the people one would rule, what we call...Bad History. Nothing will produce Bad History more directly nor brutally, than drawing a Line, in particular a Right Line, the very Shape of Contempt, through the midst of a People,-- to create thus a Distinction betwixt 'em,-- 'tis the first stroke.-- All else will follow as if predestin'd, unto War and Devastation. Thomas Pynchon
Robert Duvall quote: "You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a..."
You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie. Robert Duvall