Cormac McCarthy Quotes

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

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

You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all.

You told me once you believed in God. The old man waved his hand. Maybe, he said. I got no reason to think he believes in me. Oh I’d like to see him for a minute if I could. What would you say to him?...

You wear out, Ed Tom. All 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. Your grandad never asked...

You wear out, Ed Tom. All 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.

After a while someone asked the expriest if it were true that at one time there had been two moons in the sky and the expriest eyed the false moon above them and said that it may well have been so. Bu...

And bottles and they left

Each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

He was gibbering hysterically and when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him his bloodied hands as if in accusation and then clapped them to his ears and cried out what...

He..said..in the oratory to which he was prone that they had witnessed a thing against which time would not prevail. He meant a thing to be remembered, but the young apostate by the rail at his elbow...

The bleak and shrouded earth went trundling past the sun and returned again as trackless and as unremarked as the path of any nameless sisterworld in the ancient dark beyond.

The child would ask him questions about the world that for him was not even a memory. He thought hard how to answer. There is no past.

While one would like to say that God will punish those who do such things and that people often speak in just this way it was his experience that God could not be spoken for and that men with wicked h...

Windrows

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.

Хората все се готвеха за утрешния ден. Аз не вярвах в това. Утрешният ден не се готвеше за тях. Той дори не знаеше, че те са там.

Ჩიგურმა სახეში ესროლა. ყველაფერი რაც ოდესმე უელსმა იცოდა ან უფიქრია ან უყვარდა ნელ-ნელა ჩამოიღვენთა კედელზე მის უკან. დედის სახე, პირველი ზიარება, ქალები რომლებიც უყვარდა. იმ მამაკაცების სახეები რომლე...

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.

Cum suna chestia aia...? Cu adevarul si dreptatea?- Ne dedicam trup si suflet in fiecare zi. Ceva de genul asta.- Eu cred ca o sa-ncep de-acum sa ma dedic de doua ori pe zi. Si as putea ajunge si la t...