Quotes by Malcolm Lowry

About Malcolm Lowry:

Clarence Malcolm Lowry is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list.
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Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning...

Malcolm Lowry

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

Malcolm Lowry

Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!

Malcolm Lowry

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.

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 even your behavior's part of its plan.

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? But apparently this improbable tiger had no intention of dying just yet. On the contrary, he intended taking a little walk, taki...

Malcolm Lowry

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

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 respect for mankind, or any belief in the social struggle?

Malcolm Lowry

The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it.

Malcolm Lowry

In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.

Malcolm Lowry

When I should have been producing obscure volumes of verse entitled the Triumph of Humpty Dumpty or the Nose with the Luminous Dong! Or at best, like Clare, "weaving fearful vision" ... A frustrated poet in every man. Though it is perhaps a good idea...

Malcolm Lowry

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

Malcolm Lowry

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

Malcolm Lowry

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.

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

War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

Malcolm Lowry

Author Bio

  • NameMalcolm Lowry
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • BornJuly 28, 1909
  • DiedJune 26, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksUnder The Volcano