They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
CORMAC MCCARTHYIf you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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There is no later. This is later.
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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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She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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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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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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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
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By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
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Ever step you take is forever.
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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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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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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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Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
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There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.
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