--- title: "24 Children Quotes By Cormac McCarthy" description: "24 Children quotes by Cormac McCarthy. Plus more from Cormac McCarthy and more Children sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-134153_134153.jpg" --- > [“See the child.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/see-the-child/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-134153_134153.jpg) > [This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/this-country-was-filled-with-violent-children-orphaned-by-war/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_this-country-was-filled-with-violent-chi_522691.jpg) > [This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/this-is-my-child-he-said-i-wash-a-dead-man-s-brains-out-of-his-hair/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/608/cormac-mccarthy-181_brain_this-is-my-child-he-said-i-wash-a-dead-m_2964742.jpg) > [“That he could not enkindle in the heart of the child what was ashes in his own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/that-he-could-not-enkindle-in-the-heart-of-the-child-what-was-ashes/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4dd/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_that-he-could-not-enkindle-in-the-heart_849265.jpg) > [See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/see-the-child-he-is-pale-and-thin-he-wears-a-thin-and-ragged-linen/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d0a/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-he-is-pale-and-thin-he-wea_2773446.jpg) > [What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/what-could-a-child-know-of-the-darkness-of-god-s-plan-or-how-flesh-is/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/219/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_what-could-a-child-know-of-the-darkness_1661521.jpg) > [He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-knew-only-that-his-child-was-his-warrant-he-said-if-he-is-not-the/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/94a/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_he-knew-only-that-his-child-was-his-warr_2039168.jpg) > [“Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/dope-they-sell-that-shit-to-schoolkids-it-s-worse-than-that-how-s/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6d/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_dope-they-sell-that-shit-to-schoolkids-i_2558759.jpg) > [And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/and-perhaps-beyond-those-shrouded-swells-another-man-did-walk-with/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/cormac-mccarthy-181_another-man_and-perhaps-beyond-those-shrouded-swells_3064468.jpg) > [“the child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-child-would-ask-him-questions-about-the-world-that-for-him-was/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_the-child-would-ask-him-questions-about_2710819.jpg) > [“In the nights in their thousands to dream the dreams of a child’s imaginings, worlds rich or fearful such as might offer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/in-the-nights-in-their-thousands-to-dream-the-dreams-of-a-child-s/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/503/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_in-the-nights-in-their-thousands-to-drea_1017485.jpg) > [“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/i-think-the-truth-is-always-simple-it-has-pretty-much-got-to-be-it/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/95d/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_i-think-the-truth-is-always-simple-it-ha_2453883.jpg) > [“The incinerate corpses shrunk to the size of a child and propped on the bare springs of the seats. Ten thousand dreams…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-incinerate-corpses-shrunk-to-the-size-of-a-child-and-propped-on/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/421/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_the-incinerate-corpses-shrunk-to-the-siz_1166437.jpg) > [He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-could-not-construct-for-the-child-s-pleasure-the-world-he-d-lost/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b4/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_he-could-not-construct-for-the-child-s-p_1204808.jpg) > [To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/to-have-a-child-when-you-re-older-it-wrenches-you-up-out-of-your-nap/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_to-have-a-child-when-you-re-older-it-wre_255937.jpg) > [“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-he-woke-in-the-woods-in-the-dark-and-the-cold-of-the-night-he-d/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a64/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_when-he-woke-in-the-woods-in-the-dark-an_2349856.jpg) > [See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/see-the-hand-that-nursed-the-serpent-the-fine-hasped-pipes-of-her/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27b/cormac-mccarthy-181_agony_see-the-hand-that-nursed-the-serpent-the_596546.jpg) > [I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/i-remember-in-grammar-school-the-teacher-asked-if-anyone-had-any/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/060/cormac-mccarthy-181_any_i-remember-in-grammar-school-the-teacher_1192707.jpg) > [“So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/so-what-is-the-way-of-raising-a-child-at-a-young-age-said-the-judge/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c94/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_so-what-is-the-way-of-raising-a-child-at_2959889.jpg) > [Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/only-now-is-the-child-finally-divested-of-all-that-he-has-been-his/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f7/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_only-now-is-the-child-finally-divested-o_1415478.jpg) > [“He turned and looked at the boy. Maybe he understood for the first time that to the boy he was himself an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-turned-and-looked-at-the-boy-maybe-he-understood-for-the-first/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cef/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_he-turned-and-looked-at-the-boy-maybe-he_2083862.jpg) > [“The world soon to be largely populated by men who would eat your children in front of your eyes and the cities…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-world-soon-to-be-largely-populated-by-men-who-would-eat-your/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/913/cormac-mccarthy-181_bleak_the-world-soon-to-be-largely-populated-b_3036652.jpg) > [“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/it-had-grown-cold-in-the-night-but-he-was-numb-with-other-weathers-an/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c7/cormac-mccarthy-181_change_it-had-grown-cold-in-the-night-but-he-wa_2791435.jpg) > [“In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/in-the-dream-from-which-he-d-wakened-he-had-wandered-in-a-cave-where/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16e/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_in-the-dream-from-which-he-d-wakened-he_1013583.jpg) ## Other authors on Children - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-maria-montessori-63631.jpg) Maria Montessori 233 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/maria-montessori/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-barack-obama-16275.jpg) Barack Obama 162 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/barack-obama/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 105 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jodi-picoult-50321.jpg) Jodi Picoult 105 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/jodi-picoult/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-dickens-22226.jpg) Charles Dickens 96 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/charles-dickens/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-pope-francis-75890.jpg) Pope Francis 95 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/pope-francis/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-stephen-king-87054.jpg) Stephen King 93 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/stephen-king/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-michael-jackson-67189.jpg) Michael Jackson 85 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/michael-jackson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-neil-gaiman-70689.jpg) Neil Gaiman 83 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/neil-gaiman/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b020/author-rick-riordan-79077.jpg) Rick Riordan 79 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/rick-riordan/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-maurice-sendak-65771.jpg) Maurice Sendak 75 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/maurice-sendak/) ## More by Cormac McCarthy > [The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-cooler-days-have-brought-a-wistful-mood-upon-him-the-smell-of/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-events-of-the-world-can-have-no-separate-life-from-the-world-and/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/i-had-two-dreams-about-him-after-he-died-i-dont-remember-the-first/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/you-think-people-was-meaner-then-than-they-are-now-the-deputy-said/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/they-set-forth-in-a-crimson-dawn-where-sky-and-earth-closed-in-a/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/nothing-where-all-was-burnt-to-ash-before-them-no-fires-were-to-be/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 was one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-said-that-whether-a-man-s-life-was-writ-in-a-book-someplace-or/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-lives-in-a-room-above-a-courtyard-behind-a-tavern-and-he-comes/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/ultimo-hombre-last-man-standing-must-ve-been-one-where-d-he-go/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/to-seek-out-the-upright-no-fall-but-preceded-by-a-declination-he-took/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/they-went-through-the-last-of-the-cars-and-then-walked-up-the-track/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/night-fell-upon-them-dark-and-starblown-and-the-wagon-grew-swollen/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria, mice, people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-i-was-in-school-i-studied-biology-i-learned-that-in-making-their/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [ “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.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/we-none-of-us-knew-him-to-speak-dutch-asked-him-where-he-d-learned-it/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/you-know-that-the-things-you-put-it-your-head-stay-there-right-yeah/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/cormac-mccarthy/#itemlist", "name": "24 Children Quotes By Cormac McCarthy", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“See the child.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/see-the-child/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-134153_134153.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-134153_134153.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d02/cormac-mccarthy-181_child_see-the-child-134153_134153.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“See the child.” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/this-country-was-filled-with-violent-children-orphaned-by-war/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_this-country-was-filled-with-violent-chi_522691.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_this-country-was-filled-with-violent-chi_522691.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/cormac-mccarthy-181_children_this-country-was-filled-with-violent-chi_522691.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "This is my child, he said. 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