When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYHow 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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Ever step you take is forever.
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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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Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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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.
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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
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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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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.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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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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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
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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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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.
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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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.
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The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
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The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
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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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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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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
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There is no God and we are his prophets.
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