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Man Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
- Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of…
- 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.…
- How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
- Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
- Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
- He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him.…
- Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
- 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…
- A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one…
- There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.
- I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
- The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle