Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up on...

Yet it is the narrative that is the life of the dream while the events themselves are often interchangeable. The events of the waking world on the other hand are forced upon us and the narrative is th...

You can be patriotic and still believe that some things cost more than what they're worth.

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didn’t know you could steal your o...

You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I've taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot.Death is not a lover.Oh yes he is.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They

You think God looks out for people?...I do. Way the world is. Somebody can wake up and sneeze somewhere in Arkansas or some damn place and before you're done there's wars and ruination and all hell. Y...

You're a formidable riddler and I'll not match words with ye

Your kinda weirded out, ain't ya?

Your old man called me. He wanted you to call home.People in hell want ice water.

A bad map is worse than no map at all for it engendered in the traveler a false confidence and might easily cause him to set aside these instincts which would otherwise guide him if he would but place...

And for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the...

And when he saw the kid standing there looking 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 it seemed he himself w...

Goddamn. what is this shit?early times, called j-bone. best little old drink they is. drink that and you wont feel a thing the next mornin.or any morning.whoo lord, give it here. hello early, come to...

He said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all

تمدد على اﻷرض يصغى إلى صوت الماء وهو يسيل على جذوع اﻷشجار، إن أعماق الحقيقة تتجلى بالبرد والصمت وبرماد العالم الحديث، رماد يحمله البرد الشديد والرياح العاتية جيئة وذهابا في دورة عبثية. رماد تجمعه الري...

Do you know where we are Papa? the boy said. Sort of. How sort of? Well. I think we're about two hundred miles from the coast. As the crow flies. As the crow flies? Yes. It means going in a straight l...

Do you think God knows what's happenin?I expect he does.You think he can stop it?No. I dont.