Jubal Sackett Quotes

“It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“...be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“She did not believe me. "You do not worship the Sun."

"The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps," I added, "the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“when does a man leave a place he has lived without some regret? For each time some part of him is left behind. So”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“It is not enough to do, one must also become.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“had,”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Murder? It is not easily done, amigo.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“You will leave here at daybreak and you will leave alone."

He smiled, showing a fine set of white, even teeth. "And if I do not choose to?"

"Bodies do not lie long upon the ground. The coyotes dispose of them.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“See? I am here. Why? Because I wanted to see, to know, to understand. I wanted to go beyond the Great River. I wanted to go beyond the plains. I want even to go beyond these mountains where we now are. I think I am in this world to find beauty in lonely places. At least, that is what I wish to think.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Glancing at Keokotah I noted his features were unmarked by surprise. Had he seen or heard a gun before? Later, I learned he had not, but he was a Kickapoo, not to be astonished by such things.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Need and desire have no connection,” I said. “Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Yet there was beauty everywhere and we were lonely on the river. The forest was dark and deep with shadows where cypress trees were festooned with veils of Spanish moss. Water oak, hickory, tupelo gum, and many other trees clustered the banks, and hummingbirds danced above the water, opalescent feathers catching the light as if they played with their own beauty.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“In a world of many mysteries there are a few doors left slightly ajar for us to see. He who passes one of those doors may deny man knowledge precious to us.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Sakim had taught me to be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“when one has possessions he is as often possessed by them as possessing them.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“He wastes no time yet is never hurried.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“There is no good time in which to die,”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“This is our bed. Keep it clean.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will prepare your bed. Where you go, I will go.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man’s energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“The only messages from the dead that I’d heard had sounded as if they came from creatures that had lost their minds.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“A dead man they could leave, but a wounded man they must care for.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“When one lies awake in the night one thinks of many things, and I thought now.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“When I awakened I was cold, colder than I had ever been before.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett

“It is through wonder that we come to know.”
― Louis L'Amour, Jubal Sackett