Cormac McCarthy quote: "Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence."

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Then don't. I can't help you. They say that women dream of danger to those in their care and men of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the ambe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

All other trades are contained in that of war.

Is that why war endures?

No. It...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He didn't say a lot so I tend to
remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint patter...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I remember in grammar school the teacher asked if anyone had any hobbies. I was the only one with an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He sounded like a man with a mouthful of marbles, articulating his goatbone underjaw laboriously, th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Each leaf that brushed his face deepened his sadness and dread. Each leaf he passed he'd never pass ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the othe...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You have to carry the fire."
I don't know how to."
Yes, you do."
Is the fire real? Th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on e...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The man thought he seemed some sad and solitary changeling child announcing the arrival of a traveli...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible sile...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I think maybe they are watching, he said. They are watching for a thing that even death cannot undo ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it int...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the deep glens where they lived, all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He walked out into the road and stood. The silence. The salitter drying from the earth. The mudstain...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The black shape of it running from dark to dark. Then a distant low rumble. Not thunder. You could f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That al...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You have my whole heart. You always did.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They went through the last of the cars and then walked up the track to the locomotive and climbed up...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I k...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And s...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dope.
They sell that shit to schoolkids.
It's worse than that.
How's that?
Schoo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He shook his head. You're asking that I make myself vulnerable and that I can never do. I have only ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. A...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count....
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about f...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was abo...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just brin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and ba...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom menti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

It takes very little to govern good people.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I dont know what happens to country.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I dont believe knowing can save us. What is
constant in history is greed and foolishness and a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

whoever approaches his goal dances
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The point is there ain't no point.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curs...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Where men can't live gods fare no better.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never wi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this mor...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting rea...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I read in the papers here a while back some teachers came across a survey that was sent out back in ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In my father's last letter he said that the world is run by those willing to take the responsibility...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

the beast who dreams of man and has so dreamt in running dreams a hundred thousand years and more. D...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They crossed before the sun and vanished one by one and reappeared again and they were black in the ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also whi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

By early evening all the sky to the north had darkened and the spare terrain they trod had turned a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he'd first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he'd pre...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep ove...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beg...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He lay on his back in his blankets and looked our where the quartermoon lay cocked over the heel of ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they'r...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them....
CORMAC MCCARTHY

That night he dreamt of horses in a field on a high plain where the spring rains had brought up the ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It wa...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she sho...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

She looked up at him and her face was pale and austere in the uplight and her eyes lost in their dar...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and th...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When I was in school I studied biology. I learned that in making their experiments scientists will t...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart be...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just tha...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I've been at some pains to tell you about myself because among other reasons I think we should know ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut a...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure, death will. The...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, n...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Carry the fire.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of you...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a shi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They had no curiousity about him at all. As if they knew all that they needed to know. They stood an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scienti...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If a dream can tell the future it can also thwart that future. For God will not permit that we shall...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or b...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

All The Pretty Horses
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He may be dead; or he may be teaching English.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failur...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.
No matter even if it kills him?
I thin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gib...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Pensó que cada recuerdo evocado debe violentar en alguna medida sus orígenes. Como en un juego. El...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
CORMAC MCCARTHY

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen an...
CORMAC MCCARTHY

The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ...
CORMAC BUTLER

Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner.
CORMAC BUTLER

In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ...
CORMAC BUTLER

Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Compassion is contempt with a human face.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
MELISSA MCCARTHY

To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh...
MELISSA MCCARTHY

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.
KEVIN MCCARTHY

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo...
KEVIN MCCARTHY

Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
JOHN MCCARTHY

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ...
EUGENE MCCARTHY

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e...
MARY MCCARTHY

To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol...
MARY MCCARTHY

...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag...
MARY MCCARTHY

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story.
MARY MCCARTHY

I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ...
ALICE MCCARTHY

The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go...
ALICE MCCARTHY

They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ...
ALICE MCCARTHY

I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin...
ALICE MCCARTHY

I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã...
ALICE MCCARTHY

Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ...
ERIN MCCARTHY

Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?”

“Because I love you. Because ...
ERIN MCCARTHY

The happy ending is our national belief.
MARY MCCARTHY

Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy.
JOE MCCARTHY

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ...
MARY MCCARTHY

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
CHARLIE MCCARTHY

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
MARY MCCARTHY

A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito...
MARY MCCARTHY

Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

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Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.

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