Malcolm Lowry

“But there was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul…

— Malcolm Lowry

What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse?

— Malcolm Lowry

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Try persuading the world not to cut its throat for half a decade or more...and it'll begin to dawn on you that…

— Malcolm Lowry

For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.

— Malcolm Lowry

“—And yet, he was thinking all over again, and all over again as for the first time, how he had suffered, suffered,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Yes, it struck her now that this whole business of the bull was like a life; the important birth, the fair chance,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“First, Spaniard exploits Indian, then, when he had children, he exploited the half-breed, then the pure-blooded Mexican Spaniard, the criollo, then the…

— Malcolm Lowry

The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Ah, in how many rooms, upon how many studio couches, among how many books, had they found their own love, their marriage,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“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

“Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!”

— Malcolm Lowry

“The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was…

— Malcolm Lowry

“And I'm afraid it really is a jungle too," pursued the Consul, "in fact I expect Rousseau to come riding out of…

— Malcolm Lowry

“He felt rather like someone lying in a bath after all the water has run out, witless, almost dead.”

— Malcolm Lowry

God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights…

— Malcolm Lowry

Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

— Malcolm Lowry

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage…

— Malcolm Lowry

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.

— Malcolm Lowry

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Hugh put one foot up on the parapet and regarded his cigarette that seemed bent, like humanity, on consuming itself as quickly…

— Malcolm Lowry

I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.

— Malcolm Lowry

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

— Malcolm Lowry

“For with another part of his mind he felt the encroachment of a chilling fear, eclipsing all other feelings, that the thing…

— Malcolm Lowry

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You…

— Malcolm Lowry