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Top 500 Cormac McCarthy Quotes (2024 Update)

Cormac McCarthy Quote: “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “We’re carrying the fire.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “People don’t pay attention. And then one day there’s an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “This is what the good guys do. They keep trying. They don’t give up.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “There is no God and we are his prophets.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “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 Quote: “To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “You say you can’t? Then don’t do it. That’s all.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don’t have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It’s not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn’t have done it that way.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “If only my heart were stone.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “It’s the tide. It’s the dismal tide. It’s not the one thing.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “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.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “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 Quote: “Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you’re just too close to it.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “What could a child know of the darkness of God’s plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “It is personal. That’s what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “People think they know what they want but they generally don’t. Sometimes if they’re lucky they’ll get it anyways.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “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 Quote: “Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “I got here the same way the coin did.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Teaching writing is a hustle.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “It would take a hell of a wife to beat no wife at all.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “What’s the bravest thing you ever did? He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Every man’s death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “The rain falls upon the just And also on the unjust fellas But mostly it falls upon the just Cause the unjust have the just’s umbrellas.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Choose your enemies carefully ’cause they will define you Make them interesting ’cause in some ways they will mind you They’re not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend.”
Cormac McCarthy Quote: “Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
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