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Dead Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are…
- There was a sharp crack from somewhere on the mountain. Then another. It's just a tree falling, he said. It's okay. The boy was looking…
- He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
- 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…
- 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…
- This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
- And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another…
- Just take me with you. Please. I cant. Please, Papa. I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could…
- He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the…
- The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him…
- 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…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden