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 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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I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
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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.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
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If only my heart were stone.
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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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One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
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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.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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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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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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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.
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