Larry McMurtry Quotes
Sad Quotes by Larry McMurtry

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that
great success and huge money buy you immunity from
the common ills of mankind,
such as cars that won't start.
- Larry McMurtry

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look -
historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.
- Larry McMurtry

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he
has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends -
and he accepts it.
- Larry McMurtry

A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough.
- Larry McMurtry

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.
- Larry McMurtry

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific.
The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable
seems to be a common temptation,
not always resisted.
- Larry McMurtry

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects
is his deep sense of being a double exile,
an outsider's outsider.
- Larry McMurtry

You expect far too much of a first sentence.
Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast:
what we want is something simple,
but nourishing to the imagination.
- Larry McMurtry

Self-parody is the first portent of age.
- Larry McMurtry

Members of the Academy are mostly urban people.
We are an urban nation.
We are not a rural nation.
It's not easy even to get a rural story made.
- Larry McMurtry

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
- Larry McMurtry

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

Say NO to the demands of the world.
Say YES to the longings of your own heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
We give our own meaning to time as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them.
- Edward R. Murrow

I say NO to the demands of the world.
I say YES to the longings of my own heart.
There is nothing I ever need to have.
There is nothing I ever need to do.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no such thing as a lovers' oath.
- Plato

Do not seek the because -
in love there is no because,
no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
- Anais Nin

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
- The Buddha

I leave no trace of wings in the air,
but I am glad I have had my flight.
- Rabindranath Tagore

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

I have three kinds of friends:
those who love me,
those who pay no attention to me,
and those who detest me.
- Nicolas De Chamfort

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere,
and many of us will have to pass
through the valley of the shadow of death
again and again before we reach
the mountaintop of our desires.
- Nelson Mandela

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis

The soul would have no rainbow,
Had the eyes no tears.
- John Vance Cheney

Clouds come floating into my life,
no longer to carry rain or usher storm,
but to add color to my sunset sky.
- Rabindranath Tagore

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard

I always like walking in the rain,
so no one can see me crying.
- Charlie Chaplin

No regrets.
- Anonymous

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child.
Things never get back to the way they were.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa

Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein

I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17

Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell

There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela

It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter

If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields

It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell

I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series

Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill

Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin

Where there is no accusation of "fault,"
there can be no anger.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose with no regret.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson