Malcolm Lowry

“Somebody threw a dead dog after him down the ravine.”

— Malcolm Lowry

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

— Malcolm Lowry

“No se puede vivir sin amar”

— Malcolm Lowry

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

— Malcolm Lowry

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

— Malcolm Lowry

“A little self-knowledge is a dangerous thing.”

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

“But who could agree with someone who was so certain you were going to be sober the day after tomorrow?”

— Malcolm Lowry

“I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.”

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

— Malcolm Lowry

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

“I have resisted temptation for two and a half minutes at least: my redemption is sure.”

— Malcolm Lowry

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

— Malcolm Lowry

“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

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

— Malcolm Lowry

“And in the town too were innumerable white cantinhas, where one could drink forever on credit, with the door open and the…

— Malcolm Lowry

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Now you see what kind of creatures we are, Hugh. Eating things alive. That's what we do. How can you have much…

— Malcolm Lowry

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as…

— 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

“Indeed, on the face of it, this man of abnormal strength and constitution and obscure ambition, whom Hugh would never know, could…

— 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

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

— Malcolm Lowry

No, my secrets are of the grave and must be kept. And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Hell,” he finished absurdly. “Because—” He produced a twenty-peso note and laid it on the table. “I like it,” he called to…

— Malcolm Lowry

“All of them, you see, misfits, all good for nothing, cowards, baboons, meek wolves, parasites, every man jack of them, people afraid…

— Malcolm Lowry

To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Far too soon it had begun to seem too much of a triumph, it had been too good, too horribly unimaginable to…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though…

— Malcolm Lowry

“Closing his eyes again, standing there, glass in hand, he thought for a minute with a freezing detached almost amused calm of…

— Malcolm Lowry

“…“Please let me make her happy, deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self. I have sunk low. Let me sink lower…

— 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…

— 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

“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

“To-night, as ages hence, people would say this, or shut their doors on them, turn in bereaved agony from them, or toward…

— 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