Dreams Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

“His subtle obsession with uniqueness troubled all his dreams.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Ten thousand dreams ensepulchred within their crozzled hearts.”

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A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

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“If we do not know ourselves in the waking world, what chance in dreams?”

— Cormac McCarthy

“Ten thousand dreams ensepulchered within their crozzled hearts.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“His dreams brightened. The vanished world returned.”

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“When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy…

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“I was a soldier. It is like a dream. When even the bones is gone in the desert the dreams is talk…

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

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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would…

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“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.”

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“All his early dreams were the same. Something was afraid and he had come to comfort it.”

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“He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor…

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“He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.”

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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere…

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Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be,…

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Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of…

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“If people saw the world for what it truly is. Saw their lives for what they truly are. Without dreams or illusions.…

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In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently.…

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“he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly…

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“the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. Dreams of that…

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What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his…

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In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world…

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“She smiled and sipped from her glass. There was altogether too much of her sitting there, the broad expanse of thigh cradled…

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“Of such dreams and of the rituals of them there can also be no end. The thing that is sought is altogether…

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“Rich dreams now which he was loathe to wake from. Things no longer known in the world. The cold drove him forth…

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If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know…

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The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby…

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“Who can dream of God? This man did. In his dreams God was much occupied. Spoken to He did not answer. Called…

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“He mistrusted all of that. He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else…

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“Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger…

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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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“That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the grass…

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“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about…

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“In the dream from which he'd wakened he had wandered in a cave where the child led him by the hand. Their…

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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby…

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“The incinerate corpses shrunk to the size of a child and propped on the bare springs of the seats. Ten thousand dreams…

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In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth…

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“He thought perhaps if he dreamt of him enough he'd go away forever and be dead among his kind”

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in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable…

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