Darkness Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

“But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one that what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.”

— Cormac McCarthy

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than…

— Cormac McCarthy

I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

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“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in…

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“It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps,…

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“He imagined that in his estate of eternal night he might somehow have already halved the distance to death. That the transition…

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“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There…

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“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child…

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“She said also that while the rain fell by the will of God evil chose its own hour and that those whom…

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He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.…

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“The fire had burned to coals and he lay looking up at the stars in their places and the hot belt of…

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He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains.…

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“It had grown cold in the night but he was numb with other weathers. An equinox in the heart, ill change, unluck.…

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“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were…

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It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and…

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I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people…

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“The crumpled butcherpaper mountains lay in sharp shadowfold under the long blue dusk and in the middle distance the glazed bed of…

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“You dont get your black ass away from this fire I’ll kill you graveyard dead. He looked to where Glanton sat. Glanton…

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“When they had arranged their blankets the boy lowered the lamp and stepped into the yard and pulled the door shut behind,…

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“Inside the house there was no sound save the ticking of the mantel clock in the front room. He went out and…

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“Finally he said that in his first years of darkness his dreams had been vivid beyond all expectation and that he had…

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