Malcolm Lowry: Quotes about the world

Malcolm Lowry was British writer. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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“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.”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. I (p. 36)

World , Hell , Knowledge , Thinking

“God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light.”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. XII (p. 346)

God , World , Light , Sun

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

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. III (p. 86)

World

“Yes, I do love you, I have all the love in the world left for you, only that love seems so far away from me and so strange too, for it is as though I could almost hear it, a droning or weeping, but far, far away, and a sad lost sound, it might be either approaching or receding, I can’t tell which.”

Malcolm Lowry book Under the Volcano

Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 200)

World , Sadness , Making love , Love