The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHYWe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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.
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I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
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And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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If only my heart were stone.
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He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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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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Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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