There is no later. This is later.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBut there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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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They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I’d have the same opinion about me that he does.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
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Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
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The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
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He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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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.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
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