Cormac McCarthy Quotes

A malign star kept him.

A man gets older, he said, he finds they’s lots of things he can do jest as well without and so he don’t have to worry about this and that the way a young feller will. I worked near all my life and ne...

A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoni...

All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenthearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise.

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

As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

At fourteen he runs away. He will not see again the freezing kitchenhouse in the predawn dark. The firewood, the washpots. He wanders west as far as Memphis, a solitary migrant upon that flat and past...

Az írás azt mondja hogy aki kardot fog kard által vész el – mondta a fekete. A bíró mosolygott s ábrázata fénylett a zsírtól. Van-e épeszű ember aki másképpen akarná? kérdezte. Az írás szerint tényleg...

BIANCO- Non mi pare proprio. Lei lo vede, Gesù? NERO- No. Non lo vedo.BIANCO- Però ci parla.NERO- Ogni santo giorno.BIANCO- E lui parla con lei.NERO- Mi ha parlato. Si.BIANCO- Ma lei lo sente? Sente p...

Bears that dance, bears that don't.

Betty, he said. Yes.

Books lie, he said.God dont lie.No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.He held up a chunk of rock.He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things.The squatters in their rags nodde...

Books lie, he said. God dont lie. No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words.

But the kid only spat into the darkness of the space between them. I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

Ci sono un sacco di cose che sembrano più belle, viste da lontano.Si?Almeno così la penso io.E hai ragione. La vita passata, per esempio.Già. E magari anche la vita non ancora vissuta.

Come ultime parole direi che non sono stato infelice.Ma non possiedi nulla.Forse gli ultimi saranno i primi.Tu ci credi?No.A che cosa credi?Credo che gli ultimi e i primi soffrono allo stesso modo. Pa...

Dont let go. Okay. No matter what. No matter what.

Ever is a long time.

Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no be...

Every road ends in death. Or worse. Every friendship. Every love. Torment, betrayal, loss, suffering, pain, age, indignity, and hideous lingering illness. All with a single conclusion. For you and for...