Malcolm Lowry Quotes

There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride — the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right.

The will of man is unconquerable. Even God cannot conquer it.

Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.

But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink.

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

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

What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?

And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.

Though tragedy was in the process of becoming unreal and meaningless it seemed one was still permitted to remember the days when an individual life held some value and was not a mere misprint in a communiqué.

Translation: You can´t live without loving.

No se puede vivir sin amar.