Quotes about Introspection
He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.
— Cormac McCarthy
Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.
— Cormac McCarthy
No, Professor, it aint nothin like that. You dont have to be virtuous. You just has to be quiet. I cant speak for the Lord but the experience I've had leads me to believe that he'll speak to anybody that'll listen. You damn sure aint got to be virtuous.
— Cormac McCarthy
He lay in the dark thinking of all the things he did not know about his father and he realized that the father he knew was all the father he would ever know.
— Cormac McCarthy
If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.
— Cormac McCarthy
He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in front of him and his chin on his forearms and he watched the play with great intensity. He'd notion that there would be something in the story itself to tell him about the way the world was or was becoming but there was not. There was nothing in it at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.
— Cormac McCarthy
You shouldnt worry about what people think of you because they dont do it that often
— Cormac McCarthy
He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.
— Cormac McCarthy
He said that the world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them and therefore to know it one must look there and come to know those hearts and to do this one must live with men and not simply pass among them.
— Cormac McCarthy
The moon was already a quarter ways up. All but day bright. He felt like something in a jar.
— Cormac McCarthy