Malcolm Lowry Quotes

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

Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

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

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, ...

Can't you see there's a determinism about the fate of nations? They all seem to get what they deserv...

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

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, t...

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

When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or ...

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

Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been si...