“And he no longer cared to tell which were things done and which dreamt.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood and watched… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found… — 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
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It's a mystery. A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Lost ye way in the dark, said the old man. He stirred the fire, standing slender tusks of bone up out of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In these silent sunless galleries he'd come to feel that another went before him and each glade he entered seemed just quit… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd presumed to understand and of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lifted a hand and turned and went on. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat… — 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
