No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“When smart people do dumb things it’s usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what… — 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
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.” — 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
People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I dont believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
