Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

… a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

Country

Men

Travel

A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. And evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.

Heart

Men

Running

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.

Ends

Speak

Witness

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Destiny

Evil

Giver

All human love is a faint type of God’s; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God’s is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

Flames

God

Love

and for a moment he held out his hands as if to steady himself or as if to bless the ground there or perhaps as if to slow the world that was rushing away and seemed to care nothing for the old or the young or rich or poor or dark or pale or he or she. Nothing for their struggles, nothing for their names. Nothing for the living or the dead.

Dark

Hands

Struggle

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.

Dark

Dream

Fire

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

Beach

Children

Men

Any time you’re throwin dirt you’re losin ground.

Dirt

Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Seems

Suicide

Years

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Aggravation

Air

All The Pretty Horses

Animal

Arms

Army

Art

Ashes

Attitude

Axes

Back Home

Be Careful

Beach

Beats

Believe

Bidding

Bitter

Blood

Blow

Book

Bored

Boys

Bunch

Cafes

Careful

Children

Choices

Closeness

Cold

Color

Common

Community

Complaining

Country

Covenant

Crazy

Crush

Daddy

Dancing

Dark

Darkness

Death

Decision

Democracy

Desert

Desire

Destiny

Dies

Differences

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Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

Cormac McCarthy

… a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.

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.

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

All human love is a faint type of God’s; An echoing note from a harmonious whole; A feeble spark from an undying flame; A single drop from an unfathomed sea: But God’s is infinite; it fills the earth And heaven, and the broad, trackless realms of space.

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.

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

Any time you’re throwin dirt you’re losin ground.

Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

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