Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Cormac McCarthy
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 20
Novelist
Playwright
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Providence
Rhode Island
Charles McCarthy
Road
Taken
Gone
Left
Men
World
More quotes by Cormac McCarthy
... a man leaves much when he leaves his own country.
Cormac McCarthy
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
Cormac McCarthy
If one were to be a person of value that value could not be a condition subject to hazards of fortune. It had to be a quality that could not change. No matter what.
Cormac McCarthy
Keep a little fire burning however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Cormac McCarthy
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
Cormac McCarthy
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
Cormac McCarthy
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
When the shooting starts would you rather be armed or legal?
Cormac McCarthy
How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
Cormac McCarthy
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
Cormac McCarthy
It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.
Cormac McCarthy
What is it? Nothing. I had a bad dream. What did you dream about? Nothing. Are you okay? No. He put his arms around him and held him. It's okay, he said. I was crying. But you didnt wake up. I'm sorry. I was just so tired. I meant in the dream.
Cormac McCarthy
You go back home and everything you wished was different is still the same and everything you wished was the same is different.
Cormac McCarthy
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
Cormac McCarthy
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
You are either born a writer or you are not.
Cormac McCarthy
Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.
Cormac McCarthy
Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
Cormac McCarthy
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
Cormac McCarthy
