Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

Mercy is in the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

Doomed enterprises divide lives forever into the then and now

He rocked in the swells, floating like the first germ of life adrift on the earth's cooling seas, formless macule of plasm trapped in a vapor drop and all creation yet to come.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didnt believe in that. Tomorrow wasnt getting ready for them. It didnt even know they were there.