Book Quote by Cormac McCarthy Download Open image ““There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”” — Cormac McCarthy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Father Life Life and death Parenting
“If nothing else, books are conversations from beyond the grave. Am I anything at all, Reader, besides this manuscript you hold?” — Daniel Kraus Copy Share Image
“Fathers are teachers of the true and not-true, and no father ever knowingly teaches what is not true. In a cloud of unknowing, then,… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
“I cannot think of a life without him in it. I cannot bury another son. This time I fear they will have to put… — Lynn Viehl Copy Share Image
“Yes, it is time I was dead; there is nothing left me to do but to die. I am no good in the world;… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
“Books are the way that the dead communicate with us. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The reality of what I just heard hit me like a snowball full of rocks. My father was dead, murdered, and the chance of… — Anson Scott Copy Share Image
“I was taken up by books, as if by the strong arms of a parent I'd never known and had been badly missing.” — Vince Passaro Copy Share Image
“He'll be down with the books. My old septon used to say books are dead men talking. Dead men should keep quiet is what… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“Who had he been? A failed father, a runaway husband. A son. A packet of unopened letters. He was dead; he was dead.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The events of the world can have no separate life from the world. And yet the world itself can have no temporal view of… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They set forth in a crimson dawn where sky and earth closed in a razorous plane. Out there dark little archipelagos of cloud and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Nothing. Where all was burnt to ash before them no fires were to be had and the nights were long and dark and cold… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“He lives in a room above a courtyard behind a tavern and he comes down at night like some fairybook beast to fight with… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Ultimo hombre. Last man standing, must've been one. Where'd he go?” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“To seek out the upright. No fall but preceded by a declination. He took great marching steps into the nothingness, counting them against his… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up to the catwalk. Rust… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
