“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had no say in the matter. Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The father dead has euchered the son out of his patrimony. For it is the death of the father to which the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They sat in the little diningroom and ate. She'd put on music, a violin concerto. The phone didnt ring. Did you take… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I busted him and he busted me. That's fair ain't it? No, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamor and din of those… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry (of life) will by… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I want the dead to be dead forever. I don't want to be one of them, Except of course you can't be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He asked that God remember those who had died and he asked that the living gathered together here remember that the corn… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria, mice, people… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?' 'Yeah. You remember… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
