Cormac McCarthy Quotes about Memories

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Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

Cormac McCarthy

Memories, Life Is

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.421, Pan Macmillan

It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

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Memories, Heart, Names

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

Our enemies ... seem always with us. The greater our hatred the more persistent the memory of them so that a truly terrible enemy becomes deathless. So that the man who has done you great injury or injustice makes himself a guest in your house forever. Perhaps only forgiveness can dislodge him.

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Memories, Men, Hatred

Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic”, p.861, Pan Macmillan

How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.

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Death, Memories, Bitter

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

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Memories, Party, Reality

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.139, Pan Macmillan

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Cormac McCarthy

Memories, Past, Men

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan

The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For him such memories are bitter ones.

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Memories, Night, Air

Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.175, Pan Macmillan

He poured the tumbler full. Drink up, he said. The world goes on. We have dancing nightly and this night is no exception. The straight and the winding way are one and now that you are here what do the years count since last we two met together? Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Cormac McCarthy

Memories, Past, Night

Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.348, Pan Macmillan