Category: Quote of the Day

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Cormac McCarthy

Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.

Cormac McCarthy

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

Cormac McCarthy

Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing.

Cormac McCarthy

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

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

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

Cormac McCarthy

If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.

Cormac McCarthy

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.

Cormac McCarthy

She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.

Cormac McCarthy