Quotes about Time
The breath of God was his yet, though it pass from man to man through all of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget. The woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
— Cormac McCarthy
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
— Cormac McCarthy
He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
— Cormac McCarthy
The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
— Cormac McCarthy
When it stops, you'll know you've heard it all your life.
— Cormac McCarthy
No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later.
— Cormac McCarthy
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
— Cormac McCarthy
The hour. There is no later. This is later. 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
Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.
— Cormac McCarthy
Too soon old and too late smart. You dont know anything till it gets here. You told me once that maybe the end of the road has nothing to do with the road. Maybe it doesnt even know there's been a road. You ready?
— Cormac McCarthy
This night, thy soul may be required of thee.
— Cormac McCarthy