Quotes from Cormac McCarthy
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
- Cormac McCarthy
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
- Cormac McCarthy
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
- Cormac McCarthy
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
- Cormac McCarthy
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
- Cormac McCarthy
Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.
- Cormac McCarthy
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
- Cormac McCarthy
Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.
- Cormac McCarthy
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.
- Cormac McCarthy
At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned.
- Cormac McCarthy
When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.
- Cormac McCarthy
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
- Cormac McCarthy