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Quotes About Existence

What is the inner life of an eidolon? Do his thoughts and his questions originate with him? Do mine with me? Is he my creature? Am I his? I
~ Cormac McCarthy
He never sleeps. He says that he will never die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him. By
~ Cormac McCarthy
I told Leonard that reality was at best a collective hunch.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Pensamos, he said, que somos las victimas del tiempo. En realidad la via del mundo no es fijada en ningun lugar. Como seria posible? Nosotros mismos somos nuestra propia jornada. Y por eso somos el tiempo tambien. Somos lo mismo. Fugitivo. Inescrutable. Desapiadado.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Life. What can you say? It's not for everybody.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness. JACOB BOEHME
~ Cormac McCarthy
Pues cada fuego es todos los fuegos, el primer fuego y el último que habrá nunca.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The ugly truth is that other than Feynman's sum-over theories there is no believable explanation of quantum mechanics that does not involve human consciousness. Of course this raises the questions as to how it managed to get along without us.
~ Cormac McCarthy
One of the things I realized was that the universe had been evolving for countless billions of years
~ Cormac McCarthy
Quién está? he said, but no one spoke back. There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mi sono sempre chiesta se la piega presa dalla nostra vita esiste fin dall'inizio se invece la vita è fatta di eventi casuali nei quali individuiamo un filo solo a posteriori
~ Cormac McCarthy
Rawlins lay watching the stars. After a while he said: I could still be born. I might look different or somethin. If God wanted me to be born I'd be born. And if He didnt you wouldnt. You're makin my goddamn head hurt.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Where do we go when we die? he said. I dont know, the man said. Where are we now?
~ Cormac McCarthy
What is the significance of the book's title? 2. Discuss the meaning of the observation: "The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before" [p. 278]. How are these words applicable to the novel's action?
~ Cormac McCarthy
That's pretty much gone. I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human. I want to be as old as I can be.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How does the never to be differ from what never was
~ Cormac McCarthy
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Sizce o devrin insanlar? daha m? gaddard?? diye sordu memur. Adam sel alt?ndaki kasabaya bak?yordu. Hay?r, dedi. DeÄŸildi. Rabbim ilkini yaratt??? günden beri ayn? insanoÄŸlu.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that's certain is that it's not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you can't help but lose what is being described.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Sürmeye devam etti çünkü geri dönemezdi ve dünya o gün her zamankinden de güzeldi, o ise ölümüne yol al?yordu.
~ Cormac McCarthy