Larry McMurtry Quotes

Then teach me how to not care about someone who was everything to me. All I want is to know she's okay. Is that too much to ask?

This is not what anyone wants to hear, just like somebody who wants to lose weight doesn't want to hear 'diet and exercise,' but I think giving yourself time and abstaining from interaction is the only way to get over somebody.

Some things you just don't get over.

I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

First he threw out all of his records, trashed his heart and then he went to sleep.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

No one teaches you how to walk away from someone who you know loves you. NO one teaches you how to say good-bye.

For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually she lets the idea go. She hits bottom. She dwells in the muck for several months, not depressed exactly, but involved in a mourning that at first she thinks is for Ray but soon realizes is for the loss of her old self.

So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

When it was all over, and I was left alone in my office, I put my face in my hands and wept. I could do nothing less.

Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

When you've been touched by sadness and grief, it makes you vulnerable. And because I am vulnerable, I try to be positive. And when I say 'try,' I really do mean try, because it's an effort.

It's okay to be sad if things don't go the way you had hoped.

Grief - the actual, natural process of it - doesn't have a schedule that I can work my life around.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.