All Cormac McCarthy Quotes
- 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
- The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class… All
- I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place… All
- She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then. Bell
- Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? Away None
- He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke. Child
- They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse… Arms
- Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Borrowed
- You are either born a writer or you are not. Born
- Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again. Boy
- Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire. Along
- Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing… Ceasing
- If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures… Creatures
- When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. Air
- The man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their… Age
- Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some… Dont