Cormac McCarthy Quotes

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a...

How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood. They drank on and the wind blew in the streets and the stars that had been overhead lay low in the west and these young men fell afoul of other...

I don't believe in God. Can you understand that? Look around you man. Cant you see? The clamor and din of those in torment has to be the sound most pleasing to his ear. And I loathe these discussions....

I dont know how it would of turned out if I hadnt worried.

I got no use for a man piss backwards on his friends.

I have no wish to paint the world in colors more somber than those it wears, but as the world gives way to darkness it becomes more and more difficult to dismiss the understanding that the world is in...

I know all the people I want to know.

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 should have done it a long time ago. When there were three bullets in the gun instead of two. I was stupid. We’ve been over all of this. I didnt bring myself to this. I was brought. And now I’m done...

I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think.Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

I want the dead to be deadforever.I don't want to be one of them,Except of course you can't be one of them.You can't be one of the deadbecause that which, has no existence can have no community.No com...

I was afraid I was going to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

I'm double bred for death by fire.

I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? The way...

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?

If I didnt have her I dont know what I would have. Well, yes I do. You wouldnt need a box to put it in, neither.

If I dont go will you go anyways?John Grady sat up and put his hat on. I'm already gone, he said.

If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. . . .Hell, I dont know what I want. Never did. . . . When you're a kid...

If 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.