--- title: "9 Flames Quotes By Cormac McCarthy" description: "9 Flames quotes by Cormac McCarthy. Plus more from Cormac McCarthy and more Flames sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind-28_2876450.jpg" --- > [“watching the flames twist in the wind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind-28_2876450.jpg) > [“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can-be-no-right-candidate-for-them/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/cormac-mccarthy-181_candidates_the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can_3105202.jpg) > [The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-stepped-through-the-fire-and/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-s_1539443.jpg) > [“That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and-if-i-live-to-be-a-hunnerd/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and_1530770.jpg) > [The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-small-wad-of-burning-paper-drew-down-to-a-wisp-of-flame-and-then/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7f/cormac-mccarthy-181_burning_the-small-wad-of-burning-paper-drew-down_399792.jpg) > [“They took council. On that raw tablestone the flames of their balefire swirled and circled and they studied the arrant blackness under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/they-took-council-on-that-raw-tablestone-the-flames-of-their-balefire/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c98/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_they-took-council-on-that-raw-tablestone_1397949.jpg) > [All human love is a faint type of God's; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/all-human-love-is-a-faint-type-of-god-s-an-echoing-note-from-a/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/771/cormac-mccarthy-181_broads_all-human-love-is-a-faint-type-of-god-s_928415.jpg) > [“When the flames came up her eyes burned out there like gatelamps to another world. A world burning on the shore of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-the-flames-came-up-her-eyes-burned-out-there-like-gatelamps-to/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/995/cormac-mccarthy-181_another-world_when-the-flames-came-up-her-eyes-burned_138639.jpg) > [The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-flames-sawed-in-the-wind-and-the-embers-paled-and-deepened-and/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e25/cormac-mccarthy-181_doe_the-flames-sawed-in-the-wind-and-the-emb_3128337.jpg) ## Other authors on Flames ## 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/flames/cormac-mccarthy/#itemlist", "name": "9 Flames Quotes By Cormac McCarthy", "numberOfItems": 9, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“watching the flames twist in the wind.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind-28_2876450.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind-28_2876450.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/377/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_watching-the-flames-twist-in-the-wind-28_2876450.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“watching the flames twist in the wind.” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can-be-no-right-candidate-for-them/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/cormac-mccarthy-181_candidates_the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can_3105202.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/cormac-mccarthy-181_candidates_the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can_3105202.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2f7/cormac-mccarthy-181_candidates_the-martyr-who-longs-for-the-flames-can_3105202.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-stepped-through-the-fire-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-s_1539443.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-s_1539443.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/062/cormac-mccarthy-181_fire_the-judge-like-a-great-ponderous-djinn-s_1539443.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he…” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around that bend and then flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and-if-i-live-to-be-a-hunnerd/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and_1530770.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and_1530770.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b50/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_that-was-in-nineteen-and-thirty-one-and_1530770.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see…” — Cormac McCarthy", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. 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