Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.
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
Little
Talismans
Human
Lifetime
Humans
Within
Heart
Taken
Would
Simple
Talisman
Found
Divested
Place
Cloaked
Littles
Amulets
More quotes by Cormac McCarthy
It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.
Cormac McCarthy
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
Cormac McCarthy
The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
Cormac McCarthy
The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.
Cormac McCarthy
To have a child when you're older, it wrenches you up out of your nap and makes you look at things, you know, afresh. It forces the world on you. And I think it's a good thing.
Cormac McCarthy
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.
Cormac McCarthy
You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've become an accomplice in your own annihilation and there is nothing you can do about it. Everything you do closes a door somewhere ahead of you. And finally there is only one door left.
Cormac McCarthy
If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?
Cormac McCarthy
Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
Cormac McCarthy
I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
Cormac McCarthy
When the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be their yet.
Cormac McCarthy
The truth may often be carried about by those who themselves remain all unaware of it. They bear that which has weight and substance and yet for them has no name whereby it may be evoked or called forth. They go about ignorant of the true nature of their condition, such are the wiles of truth and such its stratagems.
Cormac McCarthy
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
Cormac McCarthy
It starts when you begin to overlook good manners. Any time you quit hearing Sir and Mam the end is pretty much in sight.
Cormac McCarthy
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
Cormac McCarthy
The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.
Cormac McCarthy
This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.
Cormac McCarthy
The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and the dark came early and the scavengers passing down the steep canyons with their torches trod silky holes in the drifted ash that closed behind them silently as eyes.
Cormac McCarthy
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
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
