Cormac McCarthy słynne cytaty
Źródło: Rącze Konie (ang. All the Pretty Horses; 1992), tłum. Jędrzej Polak
„Zapominamy to, co chcemy pamiętać, a pamiętamy to, o czym chcielibyśmy zapomnieć.”
Źródło: Droga (ang. The road; 2006), tłum. Robert Sudół
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. (ang.)
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
„Na tej planecie jedna rzecz jest pewna, a mianowicie to, że szczęście nie wali drzwiami i oknami.”
To nie jest kraj dla starych ludzi (2005)
Cormac McCarthy: Cytaty po angielsku
“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
Źródło: Blood Meridian (1985), Chapter III
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
Źródło: Suttree
“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men (2005)
“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”
Źródło: The Road
“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”
Źródło: The Sunset Limited
Źródło: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Kontekst: 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.
“Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.”
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
“He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.”
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
Źródło: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
“I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.”
Źródło: The Road
“I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.”
Źródło: No Country for Old Men
“Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.”
Źródło: All the Pretty Horses
“Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”
Źródło: The Road