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Dark Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- 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…
- 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…
- What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
- From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre…
- In his dream she was sick and he cared for her. The dream bore the look of sacrifice but he thought differently. He did not…
- And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in…
- and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as…
- They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
- Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can…
- Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they…
- He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of the mountains. In the false…
- By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a neuter gray as far as…
- They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain…
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