Men Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

Where men can't live gods fare no better.

— Cormac McCarthy

In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Cormac McCarthy

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

— Cormac McCarthy

... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

— Cormac McCarthy

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

— Cormac McCarthy

Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said

— Cormac McCarthy

Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.

— Cormac McCarthy

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

— Cormac McCarthy

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

— Cormac McCarthy

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

— Cormac McCarthy

What joins men together ... is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

— Cormac McCarthy

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and…

— Cormac McCarthy

Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard…

— Cormac McCarthy

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

— Cormac McCarthy

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the…

— Cormac McCarthy

She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to…

— Cormac McCarthy

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

— Cormac McCarthy

Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only…

— Cormac McCarthy

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea…

— Cormac McCarthy

“when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine…

— Cormac McCarthy

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them.…

— Cormac McCarthy

Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly…

— Cormac McCarthy

“It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of…

— Cormac McCarthy

Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for…

— Cormac McCarthy

“He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said…

— Cormac McCarthy

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him…

— Cormac McCarthy

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone…

— Cormac McCarthy

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin…

— Cormac McCarthy

But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand…

— Cormac McCarthy

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no…

— Cormac McCarthy

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up…

— Cormac McCarthy

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

— Cormac McCarthy

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

— Cormac McCarthy

But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has…

— Cormac McCarthy

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

— Cormac McCarthy

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him…

— Cormac McCarthy

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to…

— Cormac McCarthy

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

— Cormac McCarthy

Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.

— Cormac McCarthy