All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was? Differ
- Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy… Dream
- The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment… All
- He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So… Alter
- What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo? Business
- Men of God and men of war have strange affinities. Affinities
- When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would… Fire
- He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless… Absolute
- Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at… Arranged
- Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love. Love
- You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget. Forget
- On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world. Gone
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. Banished
- Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die. Curse
- If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it. Always Expect
- The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Dream
- The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's… Cause
- When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too. Die
- The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get… Arms
- This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest… Another Within