Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The point is there ain't no point.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

in dreams it is often the case that the greatest extravagances seem bereft of their power to astonish and the most improbable chimeras seem commonplace.

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

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 a journey.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

The trouble with a liar is he can't remember what he said.

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

There is no later. This is later.

I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.

I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

There is no greater monster than reason.

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 someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

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 that will get the job done.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else.