black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

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

Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Myself
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Blame God Grow Up Himself Life Myself Old Opinion Thinking Way
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Himself Night Return Wake Up World
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Civilization Existence Fools Myself Pretend See
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Human Misery Worst
There is no later. This is later.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Future One Liner Time
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Children God Himself Talk Word
If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes