Life Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

— Cormac McCarthy

“in that cold autistic dark.”

— Cormac McCarthy

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

— Cormac McCarthy

“In the grueling light that passed for day...”

— Cormac McCarthy

Each man is the bard of his own existence.

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“Life is being in bed with you. Everything else is just waiting.”

— Cormac McCarthy

War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god.

— Cormac McCarthy

“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the…

— Cormac McCarthy

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

— Cormac McCarthy

“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.”

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“I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't.”

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“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd…

— Cormac McCarthy

Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.

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You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is…

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People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know…

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He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day…

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Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not…

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He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and…

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He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm…

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“I don't mean to upset you, but reflective men often find themselves at a certain remove from the realities of life.”

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“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be…

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If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts,…

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“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There…

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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in…

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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of…

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“You'd think a man that had waited eighty some odd years on God to come into his life, well, you'd think he'd…

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“He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he’d guessed out likewise…

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He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He…

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“Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of…

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“he..said..in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail. He meant…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He waved away the whiskeybottle with a smile. In this tall room, the cracked plaster sootstreaked with the shapes of laths beneath,…

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“Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real.…

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“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal…

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“You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you…

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“Now the son whose father's existance in this world is historical and speculative even before the son has entered it in a…

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“Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can…

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“For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all…

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“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”

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“it. It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.”

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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

— Cormac McCarthy