63 Quotes by 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.

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

the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light

Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortés and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma?

The dead. Do they sleep? Why should they, when we cannot?

British Columbia, the genteel Siberia, that was neither genteel nor a Siberia, but an undiscovered, perhaps an undiscoverable Paradise

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

Mexico... is the most Christ-awful place in the world to be in any form of distress.

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.