Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. Cormac McCarthy More Quotes by Cormac McCarthy More Quotes From Cormac McCarthy There is no later. This is later. Cormac McCarthy I look for the words, Professor. I look for the words because I believe that the words is the way to your heart. Cormac McCarthy heart believe looks Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm. Cormac McCarthy black hair morning What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of death that all souls are one soul. Of what would you repent? Nothing. Nothing? One thing. I spoke with bitterness about my life and I said that I would take my own part against the slander of oblivion and against the monstrous facelessness of it and that I would stand a stone in the very void where all would read my name. Of that vanity I recant all. Cormac McCarthy vanity dark believe Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you. Cormac McCarthy giving-up dream world He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he. Cormac McCarthy parent loss children You have to carry the fire." I don't know how to." Yes, you do." Is the fire real? The fire?" Yes it is." Where is it? I don't know where it is." Yes you do. It's inside you. It always was there. I can see it. Cormac McCarthy know-how real fire You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. Cormac McCarthy truth life thinking The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow. Cormac McCarthy community sorrow grief It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose. Cormac McCarthy doe desire may My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. Cormac McCarthy perfect-days writing heaven There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both. Cormac McCarthy things-in-life men two Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes. Of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name. The story on the other hand can never be lost from its place in the world for it is that place. Cormac McCarthy color names hands But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse Cormac McCarthy absolutes misery humans The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. Cormac McCarthy light night boys If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule? Cormac McCarthy ifs use There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. Cormac McCarthy women honor may I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont 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. Cormac McCarthy lying moving thinking The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic. Cormac McCarthy identity men needs He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. Cormac McCarthy dancing judging sleep
