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Quotes About Time

The woman when she saw him put her arms around him and held him. Oh, she said, I am so glad to see you. She would talk to him sometimes about God. He tried to talk to God but the best thing was to talk to his father and he did talk to him and he didn't forget. The woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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.
~ Cormac McCarthy
How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time limit. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that most men were in their lives like the carpenter whose work went so slowly for the dullness of his tools that he had not time to sharpen them. Y
~ Cormac McCarthy
Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The wisdom of the journeyman is to work one day at a time and he always said that any job even if it took years was made up out of a day's work. Nothing more. Nothing less. That was hard for me to learn. I always wanted to be finished. In the concept of a day's work is rythme and pace and wholeness.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The judge is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People are always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ever's a long time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's just that the passing of time is irrevocably the passing of you. And then nothing.
~ 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
woman said that was all right. She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time
~ Cormac McCarthy
I suppose it should be a comfort to understand that one cannot be dead forever where there's no forever to be dead in.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.
~ Cormac McCarthy
As pessoas estavam sempre a preparar-se para o futuro. Eu não acreditava nisso. O futuro não se estava a preparar para elas. O futuro nem sabia que elas existiam.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She said that the breath of God was his breath yet though it pass from man to man through all of time. Once
~ Cormac McCarthy
Es un país estupendo, ¿verdad? Sí que lo es. Duérmete. ¿Compañero? Dime. Así es como era entre los habitantes primitivos, ¿verdad? Sí. ¿Cuánto tiempo crees que te gustaría quedarte aquí? Unos cien años. Duérmete.
~ Cormac McCarthy
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.
~ Cormac McCarthy