Cormac McCarthyThe man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. -The Judge371Humanity
Cormac McCarthyHe said that men believe the blood of the slain to be of no consequence but that the wolf knows better. He said that the wolf is a being of great order and that it knows what men … ▶371Death
Cormac McCarthyThe man smiled at him a sly smile. As if they knew a secret between them, these two. Something of age and youth and their claims and the justice of those claims. And of their clai… ▶372ReadingTime
Cormac McCarthyA dream inside a dream might not be a dream. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). Cities of the Plain, p.274, Pan Macmillan361Life
Cormac McCarthyNo lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart h… ▶361LoveSadness
Cormac McCarthyFinally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that men wish to be serious but they do not understand how t… ▶361Humanity
Cormac McCarthyAnything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing. ✨ Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy by John Jurgensen, www.wsj.com. November … ▶351Life
Cormac McCarthyI didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's … ▶373Politics
Cormac McCarthyWhat would you do if I died? If you died I would want to die too. So you could be with me? Yes. So I could be with you. Okay. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road film tie-in,… ▶373Death
Cormac McCarthyI don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true abo… ▶362Truth
Cormac McCarthyThe universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this worl… ▶363LifeThoughtTruth
Cormac McCarthyEasy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in s… ▶363LifeSadness
Cormac McCarthyThey heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to… ▶363Truth
Cormac McCarthyHe rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.341Life
Cormac McCarthyThere 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 at the dead roadside trees. It's okay, the … ▶352Death
Cormac McCarthyHe thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road … ▶352Thought
Cormac McCarthyEver 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. ✨ C… ▶352Life
Cormac McCarthyHe can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). The Road film tie-in, p.58, Pan Macmillan341DeathLove
Cormac McCarthyFor me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppe… ▶354DeathLife
Cormac McCarthyI can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). All the Pretty Horses, p.197, Pan Macmillan321Thought
Cormac McCarthyIt 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. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2012). All the Pretty Horses,… ▶343Life
Cormac McCarthyI tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2007). No Country for Old Men, p.295, Vintage365Time
Cormac McCarthyBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2012). All the Pretty Horses, p.244, Pan Macmillan332Life
Cormac McCarthyYou keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). No Country for Old Men, p.16, Pan Macmillan376Hope
Cormac McCarthyIt was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2013). The Border Trilogy, p.224, Pan Macmillan332Politics
Cormac McCarthyWhen 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 road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'… ▶354Death
Cormac McCarthyEach leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins lik… ▶311DeathLoveReading
Cormac McCarthyIf 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.322Thought
Cormac McCarthyI got here the same way the coin did. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (2010). No Country for Old Men, p.169, Pan Macmillan322Life
Cormac McCarthyAll the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it. ✨ Cormac McCarthy (… ▶333Time
