Larry McMurtry Quotes

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

Life is not measured by the time we live.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, but by living well, and living fully - for the reaper will come for all of us. The question is: what do we do between the time we're born and the time he shows up.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.

Facing your own mortality forces you to re-evaluate your priorities.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

We are all born to die—the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

It is no happiness to live long, nor unhappiness to die soon; happy is he that hath lived long enough to die well.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.