--- title: "13 Gone Quotes By Cormac McCarthy" description: "13 Gone quotes by Cormac McCarthy. Plus more from Cormac McCarthy and more Gone sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_on-this-road-there-are-no-godspoke-men-t_1643799.jpg" --- > [On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/on-this-road-there-are-no-godspoke-men-they-are-gone-and-i-am-left/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b57/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_on-this-road-there-are-no-godspoke-men-t_1643799.jpg) > [She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/she-was-gone-and-the-coldness-of-it-was-her-final-gift/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3a8/cormac-mccarthy-181_coldness_she-was-gone-and-the-coldness-of-it-was_2598080.jpg) > [“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-we-re-all-gone-at-last-then-there-ll-be-nobody-here-but-death/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/465/cormac-mccarthy-181_death_when-we-re-all-gone-at-last-then-there-l_910930.jpg) > [Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/ive-seen-the-meanness-of-humans-till-i-dont-know-why-god-aint-put-out/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/87f/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_ive-seen-the-meanness-of-humans-till-i-d_2959999.jpg) > [There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/there-s-hard-lessons-in-this-world-what-s-the-hardest-i-dont-know/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bf4/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_there-s-hard-lessons-in-this-world-what_1828151.jpg) > [“How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/how-much-was-gone-already-the-sacred-idiom-shorn-of-its-referents-and/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e73/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_how-much-was-gone-already-the-sacred-idi_2666596.jpg) > [The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-hardest-lesson-in-the-world-maybe-it-s-just-that-when-things-are/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abc/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_the-hardest-lesson-in-the-world-maybe-it_2130376.jpg) > [“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/on-this-road-there-are-no-godspoke-men-they-are-gone-and-i-am-left-2/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/cormac-mccarthy-181_quote_on-this-road-there-are-no-godspoke-men-t_1928180.jpg) > [The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-last-old-and-troubling-issues/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/cormac-mccarthy-181_boys_the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-la_915350.jpg) > [When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/when-we-re-all-gone-at-last-then-there-ll-be-nobody-here-but-death-2/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1e/cormac-mccarthy-181_death_when-we-re-all-gone-at-last-then-there-l_1244668.jpg) > [There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/there-is-a-moon-shaped-rictus-in-the-streetlamp-s-globe-where-a-stone/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d4/cormac-mccarthy-181_aperture_there-is-a-moon-shaped-rictus-in-the-str_2279692.jpg) > [I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/i-didn-t-mean-i-d-seen-everything-john-grady-said-i-know-you-didn-t-i/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a9/cormac-mccarthy-181_gone_i-didn-t-mean-i-d-seen-everything-john-g_424836.jpg) > [“He lifted a hand and turned and went on. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/he-lifted-a-hand-and-turned-and-went-on-he-had-divested-himself-of/) [Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cormac-mccarthy/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09a/cormac-mccarthy-181_human-heart_he-lifted-a-hand-and-turned-and-went-on_717600.jpg) ## Other authors on Gone ## 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/gone/cormac-mccarthy/#itemlist", "name": "13 Gone Quotes By Cormac McCarthy", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "On this road there are no godspoke men. 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That ever is no time at all.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Cormac McCarthy" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cormac-mccarthy/the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-last-old-and-troubling-issues/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/cormac-mccarthy-181_boys_the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-la_915350.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/cormac-mccarthy-181_boys_the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-la_915350.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5c9/cormac-mccarthy-181_boys_the-frailty-of-everything-revealed-at-la_915350.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The frailty of everything revealed at last. 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