880 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.I know you didn't.I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.I know it. 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. Yessir.

Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

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.

There was nothing along the road save the country it traversed and there was nothing in the country at all.

His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it.

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

If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.