Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from…
- Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their…
- The passing of armies and the passing of sands in the desert are one.
- Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
- Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
- in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.
- The point is there ain't no point.
- It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in…
- What would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I…
- He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had…
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are…
- Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events…
- He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift…
- If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be…
- Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of…
- He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God…
- There is no God and we are his prophets.
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…