“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“There were times when he sat watching the boy sleep that he would begin to sob uncontrollably but it wasn't about death.… — 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
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
“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 lifted the slice of cake and bit into it and turned the page. The old musty album with its foxed and… — 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
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
“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
“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
“Anything can be an instrument, Chugurh said. Small things. Things you wouldn't even notice. They pass from hand to hand. People don't… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there… — 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
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
“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through… — 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 judge watched him. He began to point out various men in the room and to ask if these men were here… — 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
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
He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Will or nill. Any man who could discover his own… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It was a cold blustery day when he walked out of the courthouse for the last time. He walked down the steps… — 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)
![“[The unconscious has] been on its own for a long time. Of course it has no access to the world except through your own sensorium. Otherwise it would just labor in the dark. Like your liver. For historical reasons it's loath to speak to you. It prefers drama, metaphor, pictures. But it understands…” quote by Cormac McCarthy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/beb/cormac-mccarthy-181_dark_the-unconscious-has-been-on-its-own-for_2193763.jpg)
