Quotes about Awareness
For let it go how it will, he said, God speaks in the least of creatures. The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest, watching, his head slightly cocked, said: No man is give leave of that voice. The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he said. When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life. Is that right? Aye.
— 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
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
I think what is being pointed out is that human consciousness and reality are not the same thing.
— Cormac McCarthy
He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
— 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
Just remember that the things you put in your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, don't you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
— Cormac McCarthy
The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.
— Cormac McCarthy
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.
— Cormac McCarthy
Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.
— Cormac McCarthy
The actual process of thinking -in any discipline- is an unconscious affair...The truth is that there is a process here to which we have no access.
— Cormac McCarthy