Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Necessity is not a fact; it's an interpretation.

Facts do not constitute truth.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.

Sometimes the truth is more than the sum of the facts.

What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

Reality is a question of perspective.

Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.

There is truth in all things, if you understand them well.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

There are many levels of truth.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

The perception of what a thing is and the perception of what it means are not separate, either.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.