When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
-
-
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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 -
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY