Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are…
- I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.
- My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
- They sat on a bench and Sproule held his wounded arm to his chest and rocked back and forth and blinked in the sun. What…
- Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
- Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.…
- 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 they were there.
- Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
- Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is…
- This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
- Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
- If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
- They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
- I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
- You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life…
- It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was…
- The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.…