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Quotes About Acceptance

I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Dont be afraid for me, she had written. When has death ever harmed anyone?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Quan els teus somnis siguin d'un món que no existirà mai i et tornis a sentir feliç, serà que t'has rendit.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised
~ Cormac McCarthy
Each leaf he passed he'd never pass again. They rode over his face like veils, already some yellow, their veins like slender bones where the sun shone through them. He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Those whom life does not cure death will.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Quando sognerai di un mondo che non è mai esistito o di uno che non esisterà mai e in cui sei di nuovo felice, vorrà dire che ti sei arreso. Capisci? E tu non ti puoi arrendere. Io non te lo permetterò.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I could tell you why—and you stit wouldn't know. That's all right. You can set and ast a bunch of idjit questions. But not knowin a thing ain't never made it not so. Well, I'm a old man and I've seen some hard times, so I don't reckon Brushy Mountain'll be the worst place I was ever in.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nessuna lista di cose da fare. Ogni giornata sufficiente a se stessa. Ogni ora. Non c'è un dopo. Il dopo è già qui. Tutte le cose piene di grazia e bellezza che ci portiamo nel cuore hanno un'origine comune nel dolore. Nascono dal cordoglio e dalle ceneri. Ecco, sussurrò al bambino addormentato. Io ho te.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Blood was a condition of their lives and none asked what had befallen him or why.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming. The world is full of people who should have been more willing to weep.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Because he knows what perhaps you do not. That the past cannot be mended.
~ Cormac McCarthy
These old people I talk to, if you could of told em that there would be people on the streets of our Texas towns with green hair and bones in their noses speakin a language they couldnt even understand, well, they just flat out wouldnt of believed you. But what if you'd of told em it was their own grandchildren?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Torbert nodded. You and the sheriff goin to come down and get me off of death row? If we cant get you out we'll get in there with you. You all dont be makin light of the dead thataway, Bell said. Wendell nodded. Yessir, he said. You're right. I might be one myself some day.
~ 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 bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy.
~ Cormac McCarthy
If I could plan my life I wouldnt want to live it.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Life. What can you say? It's not for everybody.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Some things in this world cant be helped, he said. And I believe this is probably one of em.
~ Cormac McCarthy
God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody did he.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Yeah, well. I know this is probably as good as it's goin to get and I'm a pretty grateful motherfucker.
~ Cormac McCarthy