Malcolm Lowry Quotes

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

I'm a little bit scared of everything. It's kind of funny. Whenever people ask me how I'm feeling, I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm scared. I'm nervous.'

As usual, my mind is spinning in circles...is it me? Am I making mountains out of molehills? Being too analytical? Worrying about nothing? Being emotional?

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

But now my problems had been set loose. They could be anywhere at any time and I was just like everyone else I knew: almost positive that there was something profoundly and undiagnosably wrong with me.

Hope and fear are inseparable.

Modern man is probably a more humiliated and depressed creature than he dares to know.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Uncertainty always creates doubt, and doubt creates fear.

I'm driven by fear.

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

The very thing that drives you, can drive you insane Got a head full of thought crimes and a number with no name Got an eleventh hour Jesus and a mouth full of blame A casket lined with silver dollars and a number with no name.

What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.

Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

Doubt is thought's despair; despair is personality's doubt. . . . Doubt and despair . . . belong to completely different spheres; different sides of the soul are set in motion. . . . Despair is an expression of the total personality, doubt only of thought.

You're always afraid of losing what you have. Regardless of success or anything, you're always afraid.

Guilt can make you doubt yourself at the very moment when you need to proceed with certainty.