Cormac McCarthy Quotes
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
This country was filled with violent children orphaned by war.
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker.
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.
What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot.
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 dead in the ground.
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won't even be recognizable.
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
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 could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?
