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Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Total quotes: 20
“This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Encouragement, motivation, Determination
“At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Child of God
Tagged: Nature, Anarchism, Freedom
“I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re going to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.”
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Tagged: Happiness, Growing Up, Experience
“If you break the little promises, you’ll break big ones.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Trust, Broken Promises, Assurance
“You have my whole heart. You always did.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Sweet Message, Missing Someone
“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Destruction, Creation, Silence, Emptiness
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever…”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Thoughts, Forever, Remembering, Memories
“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.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Best Days, tomorrow, Today, Future
“When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end.”
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)
Tagged: Death, Life, The End
“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Time, World, borrow, Sorrow
“Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing
Tagged: Knowledge, Existence, Belief, Higher Being
“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.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Tagged: Knowledge, unknown
“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.”
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Tagged: yesterday, Time, moment, Life
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Tagged: heart, Desire, Mysteries
“See the child.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Tagged: first lines of books
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: To-Do List, Day, Hour, Time, Grief
“Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: Hope, Happiness, Passion
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
— Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
Tagged: Decisions, Choices, Life, Abandonment
“If only my heart were stone.”
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Tagged: heart, Stone, Numb, Weak
“The laws of probability operate everywhere and that being the case, somewhere in the world there is the luckiest person. I mean if you were to go around the world and make a record of the luck in the lives of all the people on earth, and put them on a chart, you'd have a chart like a bell curve. And there would be the unluckiest person at one end and the luckiest person at the other end.”
— Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy on luck and money
Tagged: Luck, Probability, Weird, Wow
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