All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for… All
- Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. All
- If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained… Alien
- Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery. Atheism
- Lying under such a myriad of stars. The sea’s black horizon. He rose and walked out and stood barefoot in the sand and watched the… All
- And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another… Among
- Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can… Believe
- Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could… Arms
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain… Alone
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they… Anonymous
- The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are… Autonomous
- By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. Book
- If you break little promises, you'll break big ones. Big
- You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. All
- They rode like men invested with a purpose whose origins were antecedent to them, like blood legatees of an order both imperative and remote. For… Among
- She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it… All
- The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. Bonds
- When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf. Cry
- Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to… Brief
- A dream inside a dream might not be a dream. Dream