When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHYScars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
More Cormac McCarthy Quotes
-
-
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
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 -
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
There is no later. This is later.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHY -
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY