“Every man must ceaselessly struggle upwards. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?” — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, of a boa-constrictor?… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart… — 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… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Yes, it struck her now that this whole business of the bull was like a life; the important birth, the fair chance,… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Nothing is altered and in spite of God’s mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“…“Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
“And the earth itself still turning on its axis and revolving around that sun, the sun revolving around the luminous wheel of… — 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
