David Malouf Quotes

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All safe as houses, fire
kennelled in a matchbox,
the water of drowned valleys
dammed behind taps.
Barring accidents, or malice –
nothing's disaster-proof.

David Malouf

What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?

David Malouf

What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.

David Malouf

I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally become… This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.

David Malouf

Achilles too staggered a moment. He felt his soul change colour. Blood pooled at his feet, and though he continued to stand upright and triumphant in the sun, his spirit set off on its own downward path and approached the boarders of an unknown region.

David Malouf

David Malouf

David Malouf

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Born: March 20, 1934

Died: April 22, 2026 (aged 92)

Bio: David George Joseph Malouf was an Australian writer.

Known for:

Remembering Babylon (1993)
Ransom (2009)
An Imaginary Life (1978)
Fly Away Peter (1982)
Johnno (1975)

David Malouf on Wikipedia

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