Malcolm Lowry: Quotes about the 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)

“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)

“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)

“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)