Malcolm Lowry Quotes

Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of man.

There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

I'm dying always.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I cannot compete with the grave.

Dead men have no victory.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

The tragic fact is that with addiction, like many other illnesses, sometimes you can do everything right and people die.

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn't mind being pitied. If you love me, pity me. The human state is pitiable: born to die, capable of so much, accomplishing so little; killing instead of creating, destroying instead of building, hating instead of loving. Pitiful, pitiful.

The lot of man is to suffer and die.What's gone is of no consequence.

In the end, death came uniformly to all, and all extracted as much satisfaction from their dying as this essentially graceless process could afford.

Fate with impartial hand turns out the doom of high and low; her capacious urn is constantly shaking the names of all mankind.

I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

In her way, she was a hard one. Faith in any sort of natural justice was nothing but a night light; she knew of that. Whatever she did, she would end the same way with everyone does: flat on her back with a tube in her nose, wondering, "Is this all?

Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead, he was unable to wake her from them. Yes, that is death: Tereza asleep, having terrible nightmares, and he unable to wake her.