Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Cormac McCarthy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Just take me with you. Please.
I cant.
Please, Papa.
I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
I cant.
Please, Papa.
I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
Buddy when he come back from up in the panhandle told me one time it quit blowin up there and all the chickens fell over.
The spotlight kept rowing back and forth across the face of the ridge. Methodically. Bright shuttle, dark loom.
I knew that courage came with less struggle for some than for others but I believed that anyone who desired it could have it.
They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship's wake.
At our noblest we announce to the darkness that we will not be diminished by the brevity of our lives.
When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.
Dwindling slowly on the road behind him like some storybook peddler from an antique time, dark and bent and spider thin and soon to vanish forever.
Other than a light beading of sweat on his forehead there was little evidence that his labors had cost him anything at all.
His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.
They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I dont dream at all.
Do you think I lie to you?
No.
But you think I might lie to you about dying.
Yes.
Okay. I might. But we're not dying.
Okay.
No.
But you think I might lie to you about dying.
Yes.
Okay. I might. But we're not dying.
Okay.
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
They slept huddled together in the rank quilts in the dark and the cold. He held the boy close to him. So thin. My heart, he said. My heart.
He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage.
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
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.
I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I
They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place.
Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them.
He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
There's a kind of man that when he cant have what he wants he wont take the next best thing but the worst he can find.
Sparse on the mesa the dry weeds lashed in the wind like the earth's long echo of lance and spear in old encounters forever unrecorded.
The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from out of the ashes of its ruin.
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.
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
It's like a lot of things, said the smith. Do the least part of it wrong and ye'd just as well to do it all wrong.
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said?
What did he say.
Said off a Dutchman.
What did he say.
Said off a Dutchman.
like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.
Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.