• The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

  Larry Mcmurtry
  American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. boundaries
2. landmarks
3. horizons
4. demands
5. sorrow
6. plain

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The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings - crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few. by : Larry Mcmurtry

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