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. Cormac McCarthy More Quotes by Cormac McCarthy More Quotes From Cormac McCarthy It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable. Cormac McCarthy charitable difficulty people Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it? Cormac McCarthy circus towns communication Dying ain't in people's plans, is it? Cormac McCarthy dying death people They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping softly. Glass floats covered with a gray crust. The bones of seabirds. At the tideline a woven mat of weeds and the ribs of fishes in their millions stretching along the shore as far as the eye could see like an isocline of death. One vast salt sepulchre. Senseless. Senseless. Cormac McCarthy weed eye beach They say death comes like a thief in the night, where is he? I'll hug his neck. Cormac McCarthy hug night death Men believe death's elections to be a thing inscrutable yet every act invites the act which follows and to the extent that men put one foot before the other they are accomplices in their own deaths as in all such facts of destiny. Cormac McCarthy destiny believe death The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems. Cormac McCarthy often-is truth names Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. Cormac McCarthy consent existence creation Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is scrupulous. The shape is drawn. No line can be erased. I had no belief in your ability to move a coin to your bidding. How could you? A person's path through the world seldom changes and even more seldom will it change abruptly. And the shape of your path was visible from the beginning. Cormac McCarthy bidding choices moving Last words are only words. Cormac McCarthy last-words lasts The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. Cormac McCarthy voice silence speak I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it. Cormac McCarthy careful be-careful luck People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there. Cormac McCarthy life believe people How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too. Cormac McCarthy differences earth men Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty. Cormac McCarthy waking-life desire world Ever step you take is forever. Cormac McCarthy steps forever I've always been interested in the Southwest. There isn't a place in the world you can go where they don't know about cowboys and Indians and the myth of the West. Cormac McCarthy cowboy west world In dreams we stand in this great democracy of the possible and there we are right pilgrims indeed. There we go forth to meet what we shall meet. Cormac McCarthy pilgrim democracy dream The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them. Cormac McCarthy heart men reality There's a difference between quittin and knowin when you're beat. Cormac McCarthy quitting beats differences
