880 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

You have my whole heart. You always did.

Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle.

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. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

The freedom of birds is an insult to me.

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.

And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.