He didn't say a lot so I tend to remember what he did say. And I don't remember that he had a lot of patience with havin to say things twice so I learned to listen the first time. Cormac McCarthy More Quotes by Cormac McCarthy More Quotes From Cormac McCarthy When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too. Cormac McCarthy dies ifs Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said Cormac McCarthy drink said men Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin? Cormac McCarthy going-away steps forever It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift. Cormac McCarthy names heart memories The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. Cormac McCarthy morning night long If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with. Cormac McCarthy odds mind men Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable. Cormac McCarthy vulnerable men world Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Cormac McCarthy way-to-live california way When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. Cormac McCarthy doe mean way 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. Cormac McCarthy opinion doe way What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. Cormac McCarthy dream night world The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart. Cormac McCarthy would-be together heart Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire. Cormac McCarthy ashes light world Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was? Cormac McCarthy queries doe In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself. Cormac McCarthy great-love heart men Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily. Cormac McCarthy betrayal courage morning If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet? Cormac McCarthy done race men He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. Cormac McCarthy party memories reality Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Cormac McCarthy sorrow eye world This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. Cormac McCarthy heartbeat country people
