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“You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

Cormac McCarthy

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Heart

“What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?
Yes. So I could be with you.
Okay.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

For Mother , Sun

“They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”

Cormac McCarthy

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Men , Soul , Star , Past

“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.”

Cormac McCarthy

Source: All The Pretty Horses: All The Pretty Horses

“Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.”

Cormac McCarthy

Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Men , God , War

“Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

World , Mountain , Silence

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

People , Smile

“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.”

Cormac McCarthy

Source: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter V
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Mountain , Wolf , Cry

“Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Understanding

“When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

God , World

“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: I aint got all that many regrets. I could imagine lots of things that you might think would make a man happier. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

People , Thinking , Time , Happiness

“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 book The Road

Source: The Road

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

People

“You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Variant: You have my whole heart. You always did.
Source: The Road

Guy , Heart

“I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Thinking