Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He looked into those blue eyes like a man seeking some vision of the increate future of the universe.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a… — 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… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority are replaced by infirmity.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The world of our fathers resides within us. Ten thousand generations and more. A form without a history has no power to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You wear out, Ed Tom. All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had no say in the matter. Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He’d stop and lean on the cart and the boy would go on and then stop and look back and he would… — 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
“he..said..in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail. He meant… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“goddamn. what is this shit? early times, called j-bone. best little old drink they is. drink that and you wont feel a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“One spring morning timing the lean near-liquid progress of a horse on a track, the dust exploding, the rapid hasping of his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall know… — 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… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“he said that in an case the past was little more than a dream and its force in the world was greatly… — cormac mccarthy Copy Share Image
“The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Because a lot of the time ever when I say anything about how the world is goin to hell in a handbasket… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.” — 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
![“And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07a/cormac-mccarthy-181_encouragement_and-after-and-for-a-long-time-to-come-he_1311728.jpg)
