Cormac McCarthy on reason
Cormac McCarthy69 quotes“The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.”
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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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Cormac McCarthyCormac 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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy If only my heart were stone.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Cormac McCarthyCormac 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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
Cormac McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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.
Cormac McCarthyCormac 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 McCarthyCormac McCarthy 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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