Cormac McCarthy: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.”

Cormac McCarthy

The Wall Street Journal, November 20, 2009, "Hollywood's Favorite Cowboy" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704576204574529703577274572.html by John Jurgensen 
Variant: I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Context: I'm not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Life , Suicide

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Game , Reality , Memory

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

Cormac McCarthy

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

Joy

“I will do what I promised." He whispered. "No matter what. I will not send you into the darkness alone.”

Cormac McCarthy

“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”

Cormac McCarthy book Suttree

Source: Suttree

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)

“Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

“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 book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Life , God , Way

“I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“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 book The Road

Source: The Road

Men , World

“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

World , Education , Personality

“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 book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: The stories gets passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the sayin goes. Which I reckon some would take as meanin that the truth cant compete. But I dont believe that. 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. You cant corrupt it because that's what it is. It's the thing you're talkin about. I've heard it compared to the rock — maybe in the bible—and I wouldnt disagree with that. But it'll be here even when the rock is gone. I'm sure they's people would disagree with that. Quite a few, in fact. But I never could find out what any of them did believe.

Truth , Thinking , Change , Time

“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 book The Road

Source: The Road

Pain , Beauty , Birth , Heart

“Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

Way

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”

Cormac McCarthy book All the Pretty Horses

Source: All the Pretty Horses