💬 Quotes

"Die Schönheit ist der Schlummer der Seele vor dem Sturm, eine Waffe schärfer als das stoßende Schwert, doch zerbrechlich wie Glas."

"Der Tod ist nicht das Ende des Ruhms, sondern das Siegel, das die Taten der Großen der Welt vor dem Vergilben bewahrt."

"A man who lives with his hoss and his gun, out in the sage and the wind, gets to feel different about things."

"Texas was a great, raw, brawny empire, where men worked out their own salvation with blood and iron."

"The past was a dead trail, and the future was a dark canyon. Only the present moment, with its swift decisions and smoking guns, belonged to him."

"Vengeance is a rust that eats into a man's soul until there's nothing left of him but hate."

"Law and order were coming to the border, slow and hard, through a red haze of war."

"There is a courage born of despair that is deadlier than the courage of hope."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and hope."

"Kings are but men, and men are but dust."

"Time is a great master; it fixes all things, sets all things right, and finally does justice to all."

"There are griefs which resemble deep rivers: the water is silent, transparent, and formidable."

"We die as we have lived—alone, misunderstood, and forgotten by the world we served."

"Politics swallows men, digests them, and spits them out when they are no longer of any use."

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

"You are all of you the same. For all I know you are all lunatics, or else I am a lunatic."

"Humanity, take it by and large, doesn't like change."

"I know nothing — nothing in the world — of the and-a-little-more that makes the difference between happiness and eventual unhappiness."

"Society must go on, so long as it doesn't actually smash itself up."

"I have, I suppose, a sort of inertness. I suppose that I am not really a man of the world."