There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
CORMAC MCCARTHYNotions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHYYou have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHYSomewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIt is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBy day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
CORMAC MCCARTHYKeep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThere is no later. This is later.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHYI 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHYEver dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWhat he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
CORMAC MCCARTHYBetween the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY