It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You don't start over. That's what it's about. Ever...
It's a mess, aint it Sheriff?If it aint it'll do till a mess gets here.
It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood a...
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true t...
In his delirium he ransacked the linens of his pallet for arms but there were none. The judge smiled. The fool was no longer there but another man and this other man he could never see in his entirety...
I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her.
I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
I remember back a number of years, talkin about fairs, they had a old boy come through would shoot live pigeons with ye. Him with a rifle and you with a shotgun. Or anything else. He must of had a tru...
I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart.
I got no reason to be afraid of God. I’ve even got a bone or two to pick with Him.
I dont think you havin a bad day, Professor. I think you havin a bad life.
I dont know what I ever done, she said. I truly dont.Chigurh nodded. Probably you do, he said. There's a reason for everything.She shook her head. How many times I've said them very words. I wont agai...
I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.
I could tell you why—and you stit wouldn’t know. That’s all right. You can set and ast a bunch of idjit questions. But not knowin a thing ain’t never made it not so. Well, I’m a old man and I’ve seen...
How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.Nobody would know it.It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if...
How does the never to be differ from what never was?
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel.
Here beyond men’s judgements all covenants were brittle.
He'd stepped on something. He took a step back and knelt and parted the grass with his hands. It was an apple. He picked it up and held it to the light. Hard and brown and shriveled. He wiped it with...