black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 McCarthy

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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Darkness Dreams Fire Myself Wake Up
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Myself
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

God Man Strange War
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Return Time Try Yourself
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Bad Goodness Growth Happiness People Thinking Time Yourself
It’s not about knowing who you are. It’s about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody’s. You dont start over. That’s what it’s about. Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Forever Philosophy Start Step Thinking Yourself
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time World
It 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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Blood Fools Greedy History Love Repeat Save True
He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Children God Himself Talk Word
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 MCCARTHY

Brief Life Live Short Slave Yourself
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Act End Oneself Talk
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Best Identity Live Way
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 MCCARTHY

Beyond Bitter Carry Curse Death Live Memories Remember
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Future People Preparation Ready Time

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes