880 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me.... You'll be all right.

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.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as is this flesh. This gawky wormbent tabernacle.

He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

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

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

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

I always thought when I got older that God would sort of come into my life in some way. He didn't. I don't blame him. If I was him I'd have the same opinion about me that he does.