My experience has been that people who die for causes have few friends in death. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
Don't let anyone tell you that age purchases your freedom from fear of death. — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The winter was not really winter at all, and therein may lie Key West's greatest charm. If one does not have to… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is. If there is such a thing as wisdom, and… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“Death was a rodent that ate its way inch by inch through your entrails, chewed at your liver and stomach, severed tendon… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“A wet cigarette butt clung to my cheek like a mashed cockroach. I could smell whiskey and beer in my clothes and Gable’s blood… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The Homeric Epic does not have to be discovered inside a book; it begins just west of Fort Worth and extends all the way… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“The best moments in life are not the kind many historians record.” — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a best-selling writer is being a best-selling writer. More seriously, today I can write full time and pay the… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
If there is any human tragedy, there is only one, and it occurs when we forget who we are and remain silent while a… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
I sometimes subscribe to the belief that all historical events occur simultaneously, like a dream in the mind of God. Perhaps it is only… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
“When a man molests a woman or girl, he steals her identity. You don't know who you are anymore. You don't have an address… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
![“But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.” quote by James Lee Burke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/320/james-lee-burke-2289_book_but-the-participants-in-war-never-forgot_31146.jpg)
