Cormac Mccarthy Quotes

You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

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.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

in that cold autistic dark.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

In the grueling light that passed for day...

~ Cormac Mccarthy

If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen becomes the remembered? How are they separate? It is that which we have no way o show. It is that which is missing from our map and from the picture that it makes. And yet is all we have.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. Because I am done with my own whorish heart and I have been for a long time. You talk about taking a stand but there is no stand to take. My heart was ripped out of me the night he was born so don't ask for sorrow now. There is none. Maybe you'll be good at this. I doubt it, but who knows. The one thing I can tell you is that you won't survive for yourself. I know because I would have never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and sheild it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have given everyone a hobby and still had 40 or 50 to take home.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

~ Cormac Mccarthy