But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
CORMAC MCCARTHYThe 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.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
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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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He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
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Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
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You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
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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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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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Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
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How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
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Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
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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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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
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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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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.
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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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What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.
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