Cormac McCarthy Quotes

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

There is no later. This is later.

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.

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

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just's umbrellas

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.

A dream inside a dream might not be a dream.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren't.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

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.

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

If only my heart were stone.