880 Quotes by Cormac McCarthy

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he'd reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.

Well, I’ll tell ye, they ain’t no more heroes.

I agreed with him that there wasnt a whole lot good you could say about old age and he said he knew one thing and I said what is that. And he said it dont last long. I waited for him to smile but he didnt.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.

The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. but I dont believe that. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It don't move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is.

Quién está? he said, but no one spoke back.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.

The boy's candlecolored skin was all but translucent.