Quotes about Awareness
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
— Cormac McCarthy
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.
— Cormac McCarthy
It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.
— 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
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