Cormac McCarthy

United States
Born on 20 Jul 1933
Writer

Quotes



The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

The Crossing
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

The Crossing
Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.

The Crossing
So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall.

The Crossing
Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.

The Crossing
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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