Quotes from Cormac McCarthy

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

You've got no cause to hurt me, she said. - I know. But I gave my word. - Your word? - Yes. We're at the mercy of the dead here. In this case your husband. - That dont make no sense. - I'm afraid it does

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

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

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

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

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

What's the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

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

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

You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it.

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

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

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

If only my heart were stone.

Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.

The point is there ain't no point.

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

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