Malcolm Lowry Quotes

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.

The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

What I'm interested in is human beings alone.

We're all in this alone.

Artists walk alone.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

The writer is all alone.

I don't belong to anyone.

I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I can be normal by myself; no one notices me.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

There are two ways to make a person feel homeless—one is to destroy his home and the other is to make his home look and feel like everybody else’s home.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

Growing up, I didn't know any writers and felt somewhat isolated.

It sounds lonely being Bob Dylan, because Bob Dylan likes being around other Bob Dylans, and there are not many other Bob Dylans around.

I sometimes feel like it's my world and everyone is just visiting.