Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

“Just take me with you. Please.I cant.Please, Papa.I cant. I cant hold my son dead in my arms. I thought I could but I cant.”

“He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked bac...”

“I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give...”

“I believe that we are arks of the covenant and our true nature is not rage or deceit or terror or logic or craft or even sorrow. It is longing.”

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

“There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.”

“in that cold autistic dark.”

“In the grueling light that passed for day...”

“I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with any hobbies and I had every hobby there was... name anything, no matter how esoteric. I could have ...”

“The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up thei...”

“If he is not the word of God, then God never spoke.”

“But what is your life? Can you see it? It vanishes at its own appearance. Moment by moment. Until it vanishes to appear no more. When you look at the world is there a point in time when the seen be...”

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”

“I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. ”

“Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of danger to themselves. But I don't dream at all. You say you can't? Then don't do it. That's all. ...”

“There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.”

“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”

“The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was ...”

“Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”