“Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that even your behavior's part of its plan.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices outside the… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“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… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“They were the cars at the fair that were whirling around her; no, they were the planets, while the sun stood, burning and spinning… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
