The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
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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.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin 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.
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