Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

The world has created no living thing that it does not intend to destroy.

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?

If we were going to die would you tell me? I dont know. We're not going to die.

I'd rather to make a good run as a bad stand.

Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief.

Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creature could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Truth has no temperature.

I dont know what happens to country.

In the beginning always was nothing. The novae exploding silently. In total darkness. The stars, the passing comets. Everything at best of alleged being. Black fires. Like the fires of hell. Silence. Nothingness. Night. Black Suns herding the planets through a universe where the concept of space was meaningless for want of any end to it. For want of any concept to stand it against.

Night fell upon them dark and starblown and the wagon grew swollen near mute with dew. On their chairs in such black immobility these travelers could have been stone figures quarried from the architecture of an older time.

Sometimes faith might just be a case of not havin nothin else left.