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Lasts Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen…
- 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…
- 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…
- But this man had set down with a hammer and chisel and carved out a stone water trough to last ten thousand years. Why was…
- The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
- When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the…
- They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of…
- Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
- Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of…
More Lasts Quotes
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Fight to the last gasp. — William Shakespeare
- No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad… — Thomas Jefferson
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson