All 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… Afflicted
- 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. Anybody
- 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. Anything Else
- 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… Aint
- Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said Drink
- Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. All
- 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… All
- 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.… Any
- 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. Always Getting
- Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave. Funny
- 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… Ability
- This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. Country
- Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. Consent
- If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around. Bunch
- 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. Black
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? Abandon
- I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone. 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… All
- 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… Abode
- 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.… Cannot Find