Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
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
Thing
Always
Expect
Trouble
Least
Maybe
Comes
More quotes by Cormac McCarthy
Men have in their minds a picture of how the world will be. How they will be in that world. The world may be many different ways for them but there is one world that will never be and that is the world they dream of.
Cormac McCarthy
This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.
Cormac McCarthy
He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo
Cormac McCarthy
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledgerbook? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
Cormac McCarthy
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
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
In every trade save war men of talent and vigor prosper. In war they die.
Cormac McCarthy
Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.
Cormac McCarthy
There is no later. This is later.
Cormac McCarthy
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
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
Cormac McCarthy
Do you have any notion of how goddamned crazy you are?
Cormac McCarthy
Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.
Cormac McCarthy
I don't think goodness is something that you learn. If you're left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
Cormac McCarthy
I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
Cormac McCarthy
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Cormac McCarthy
Listen to me, he said, when your dreams are of some world that never was or some world that never will be, and you're happy again, then you'll have given up. Do you understand? And you can't give up, I won't let you.
Cormac McCarthy
Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
Cormac McCarthy
Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
Cormac McCarthy
Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
Cormac McCarthy
