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“Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing…”

Cormac McCarthy book The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“Carry the fire.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”

Cormac McCarthy

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

“What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“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 book The Road

Source: The Road

“You are either born a writer or you are not.”

Cormac McCarthy

“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 The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

“The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.”

Cormac McCarthy

Blood Meridian (1985)
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Context: The judge tilted his great head. The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“I've seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.”

Cormac McCarthy book Outer Dark

Source: Outer Dark (1968)

“Life is a memory, and then it is nothing.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Crossing

Source: The Crossing

“Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.”

Cormac McCarthy book Cities of the Plain

Source: Cities of the Plain (1998)