Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
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He reached down and tapped Suttree's knee with his forefinger. You, my good buddy, are a fourteen carat gold plated son of a bitch. That's what your problem is. And that being your problem, there's not a whole lot of people in sympathy with you. Or with your problem.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
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Whatever voice spoke to him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity, a hand to gentle him back from the rim of his disastrous wrath. (p.149)
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Because he is a special kind of keeper. A suzerain rules even where there are other rulers. His authority countermands local judgments. - The judge.
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War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. - The judge
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If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.
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What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.
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...and he is as eitherhanded as a spider,...
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How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.
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The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
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It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?
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I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.
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I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
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If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian.
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Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
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...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.
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His among the clouded faces seemed unperturbed. He looked over the Americans, their gear. In truth, they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadn't drunk.
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Where is yesterday? … And where is the fiddler and where is the dance?
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...he shook his head at the wonderful invention of folly in its guises and forms.
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Whatever exists, he the judge said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.