Quotes from Cormac McCarthy
Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
- Cormac McCarthy
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
- Cormac McCarthy
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
- Cormac McCarthy
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
- Cormac McCarthy
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
- Cormac McCarthy
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
- Cormac McCarthy
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
- Cormac McCarthy
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.
- Cormac McCarthy
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
- Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
- Cormac McCarthy
I will do what I promised. He whispered. No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.
- Cormac McCarthy
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
- Cormac McCarthy