Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in 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
World
Shapes
Blind
Least
Enemy
Fear
Often
Make
Hazards
Men
Shape
More quotes by Cormac McCarthy
The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.
Cormac McCarthy
I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.
Cormac McCarthy
I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.
Cormac McCarthy
No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live 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 the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
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
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
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
Cormac McCarthy
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
Cormac McCarthy
The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
Cormac McCarthy
How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.
Cormac McCarthy
The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
Cormac McCarthy
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
Cormac McCarthy
I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.
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
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
Cormac McCarthy
Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.
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
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch.
Cormac McCarthy
