--- title: "4 Edge of the world Quotes By Cormac McCarthy" description: "4 Edge of the world quotes by Cormac McCarthy. Plus more from Cormac McCarthy and more Edge of the world sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/cormac-mccarthy-181_all-the-pretty-horse_the-rain-had-ripened-all-the-country-aro_999847.jpg" --- > [“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-rain-had-ripened-all-the-country-around-and-the-roadside-grass/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/cormac-mccarthy-181_all-the-pretty-horse_the-rain-had-ripened-all-the-country-aro_999847.jpg) > [“Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/whether-in-my-book-or-not-every-man-is-tabernacled-in-every-other-and/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/76c/cormac-mccarthy-181_books_whether-in-my-book-or-not-every-man-is-t_1478505.jpg) > [“When he rose and turned to go back the tarp was lit from within where the boy had wakened. Sited there in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-he-rose-and-turned-to-go-back-the-tarp-was-lit-from-within-where/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f9/cormac-mccarthy-181_darkness_when-he-rose-and-turned-to-go-back-the-t_2343986.jpg) > [“every man is tabernacled in every other, and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/every-man-is-tabernacled-in-every-other-and-he-in-exchange-and-so-on/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/756/cormac-mccarthy-181_edge-of-the-world_every-man-is-tabernacled-in-every-other_2616181.jpg) ## Other authors on Edge of the world - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-haruki-murakami-40784.jpg) Haruki Murakami 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/edge-of-the-world/haruki-murakami/) ## 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/edge-of-the-world/cormac-mccarthy/#itemlist", "name": "4 Edge of the world Quotes By Cormac McCarthy", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The rain had ripened all the country around and the roadside grass was luminous and green from the run-off and flowers were in bloom across the open country. He slept that night in a field far from any town. He built no fire. 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