Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Hard people make hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans till I don't know why god ain't put out the sun… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not" -Judge Holden” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and… — 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
“He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“goddamn. what is this shit? early times, called j-bone. best little old drink they is. drink that and you wont feel a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lifted the slice of cake and bit into it and turned the page. The old musty album with its foxed and… — 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
“I couldn't trust you with it. To do something with it. I don't want anybody talking about me. To say where I… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“We'll just take it one step at a time. Okay. Don't let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.” — 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
“The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a… — 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
