All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new. Always New
- The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the… Achievement
- They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us. Boy
- If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? Elect
- He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight… Count
- Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie. Day
- You have my whole heart. You always did. Fidelity
- But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why… Admission
- It is community and respect, of course, but the dead have more claims on you than what you might want to admit or even what… Admit
- This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. Brain
- Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is… Act
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in… Among
- A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but… Aint
- He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime… Amulets
- In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,… All
- Maybe. Anyway, some men get what they want. No man. Or perhaps only briefly so as to lose it. Or perhaps only to prove to… All
- I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.… Aint
- Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it… Abate
- you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a… Aggravation
- Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. Drive