How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHe’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
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But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
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The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
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Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
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The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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.
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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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My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.
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There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
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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.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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.
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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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