“If you had to say something definitive about the world in a single sentence what would that sentence be? It would be… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he’d guessed out likewise… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only one way… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I busted him and he busted me. That's fair ain't it? No, I ain't forgettin about jail. You think because he arrested… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. You can… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Son, not everbody thinks that life on a cattle ranch in west Texas is the second best thing to dyin and goin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There were times I'd see [my brother] looking at me and I would leave the room crying. I knew that I'd never… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility for the running… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
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… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will take some group - bacteria, mice, people… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“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.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“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… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
![“There were times I'd see [my brother] looking at me and I would leave the room crying. I knew that I'd never be loved like that again. I just thought that we would always be together. I know you think I should have seen that as more aberrant than I did, but my life is not like yours. My hour. My…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/27c/cormac-mccarthy-181_aberrant_there-were-times-i-d-see-my-brother-look_1848138.jpg)
