--- title: "1 Good Happens Quotes By Malcolm Lowry" description: "1 Good Happens quotes by Malcolm Lowry. Plus more from Malcolm Lowry and more Good Happens sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/malcolm-lowry-8442_boat_bad-or-good-as-it-happens-to-be-that-is_2302436.png" --- > [“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/bad-or-good-as-it-happens-to-be-that-is-what-it-is-to-exist-it-is-as/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c3/malcolm-lowry-8442_boat_bad-or-good-as-it-happens-to-be-that-is_2302436.png) ## More by Malcolm Lowry > [“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/night-and-once-again-the-nightly-grapple-with-death-the-room-shaking/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [War is being declared to-morrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/war-is-being-declared-to-morrow-here-so-perhaps-you-can-understand/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/he-was-safe-here-this-was-the-place-he-loved-sanctuary-the-paradise/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/what-i-have-absolutely-no-sympathy-with-is-the-legislator-the-man-who/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“The will of man is unconquerable. Even God cannot conquer it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/the-will-of-man-is-unconquerable-even-god-cannot-conquer-it/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“and as they stood in silence before her, prayed again. "Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/and-as-they-stood-in-silence-before-her-prayed-again-nothing-is/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/far-above-him-a-few-white-clouds-were-racing-windily-after-a-pale/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/adi-s-she-added-in-spanish-i-have-no-house-only-a-shadow-but-whenever/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning and spinning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/they-were-the-cars-at-the-fair-that-were-whirling-around-her-no-they/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/when-i-should-have-been-producing-obscure-volumes-of-verse-entitled/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“My lover. Oh come to me again as once in May.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/my-lover-oh-come-to-me-again-as-once-in-may/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/i-have-no-house-only-a-shadow-but-whenever-you-are-in-need-of-a/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could never deliver…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/indeed-on-the-face-of-it-this-man-of-abnormal-strength-and/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [“Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/under-the-volcano-embraces-everything-from-dante-to-freud-to-the/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) > [War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-lowry/war-is-being-declared-tomorrow-here-so-perhaps-you-can-understand/) [Malcolm Lowry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-lowry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/good-happens/malcolm-lowry/#itemlist", "name": "1 Good Happens Quotes By Malcolm Lowry", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . 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