Patrick Howell

“He wondered if all men felt such disappointment when thinking of themselves. He didn’t know.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Lonesome Dove Series

“I supposed I'd been hit in the heart, but the prospect of death neither hurt nor frightened me. As I fell, I saw the smooth, white pebbles in the muddy road; their arrangement made sense, it was as necessary as that of the stars, and certainly great wisdom was hidden in it. That concerned me, and mattered more than the slaughter that was going on all round me.”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

“People like that continually expose their souls to mortal danger in imagining that they are free of it, when, indeed, the only mortal danger for the spirit is to remain too long without it. The world is made of fire.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn’t know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.”
― Larry McMurtry, The Lonesome Dove Series