All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- Where hunters and woodcutters once slept in their boots by the dying light of their thousand fires and went on, old teutonic forebears with eyes… Abrogate
- It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal. Doe
- You either stick or you quit. And I wouldnt quit you I dont care what you done. Care
- See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby.… Agonies
- How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a… Beyond
- What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering? Coward
- The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Aint
- The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't. Fragile
- It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. Abandoned
- The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the… Any
- Rage is really only for the good days. The truth is there's little of that left. the truth is that the forms I see have… Any
- Your god must once have stood at a dawn of infinite possibilities, and this is what he's made of it. You tell me that I… Ask
- Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm. Black
- I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every… Any
- People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent,… Ago
- Each man is the bard of his own existence. Bard
- Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to… Anywhere
- I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen. Citizen
- Best way to live in California is to be from somewhere else. Best