You 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 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
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If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
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I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
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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 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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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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If only my heart were stone.
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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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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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