Midnight Cowboy Quotes

“There is no Beatitude for the lonesome.
The Book doesn't say they are blessed.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart: A confused and unreliable organ at best, it now held something akin to joy.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“His own life made very little noise of its own, and he found that in silence there was something downright perilous: It had enemies in it that only sound could drive out.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“What he wanted was something soft and fat and gentle, full of rounding sweet places to hide in.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“Having no sense at all of where he might be headed, Joe Buck simply meandered deeper and deeper into September”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

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And the whole trick to having these things come out right was that you had to work hard and wait for them to come out right, you couldn't just say oh it will never be it will never be; you just had to keep on until it was, even if in the meantime your teet hurt and you grew a long white beard that reached to the ground. He had taken on a plan once before in his life, back in Houston when he decided to become a hustling cowboy and seek his fortune in the East. Well, he had carried that out, he had become a hustling cowboy and he had sought his fortune.
There just wasn't any there, but he had sought it and that was the whole point. And now, this time, maybe there wouldn't be any ordinary life for him but he would goddam well do some seeking, and go on stubborn and hard-assed about it till the day he died.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

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― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“Her voice went soft and sweet: it seemed to be luring some small child into a gas chamber with promises of candy.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“She smiled and Joe was touched suddenly by the very special beauty of a lady at the far, far end of her youth - old age just under the surface of her skin, but not yet emerged, not yet.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“There is a certain way of climbing inside of time that gives a man ownership of the world and everything in it. Like, for instance, when you hear a jukebox it plays only what you need to hear.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“She had enormous gray eyes and knees that made you cry they were so sorry looking and knobby. If there is some part of every loved one that will make you cry to contemplate it, such for Joe were these poor, sad, bony knees of Sally Buck.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“Time is a Colossus, and he’s marching up Broadway!”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy: A Novel

“It said, You are in a burning building and Jesus is the only possible fireman.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy