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Tolling in the silence the minutes of the earth and the hours and the days of it and the years without cease.
— Cormac McCarthy
And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.
— Cormac McCarthy
There ain't but one life worth livin and I was born to it.
— Cormac McCarthy
That the deep foundation of the world be considered where it has its being in the sorrow of her creatures.
— Cormac McCarthy
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledger book? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
— Cormac McCarthy
I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
— Cormac McCarthy
His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel. He
— Cormac McCarthy
Lumea nu are nici un nume. Numele de cerros, sierras si deserturi exista numai pe harti. Le punem nume ca sa nu ne ratacim. Dar am inventat aceste nume tocmai pentru ca am ratacit deja drumul. Lumea nu se poate pierde. Noi ne pierdem. Si tocmai pentru ca noi am pus numele acestea si am numit aceste coordonate, numele lor nu ne poate salva. Nu pot regasi drumul in locul nostru.
— Cormac McCarthy
All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.
— Cormac McCarthy
I know that to be female is an older thing even than to be human.
— Cormac McCarthy
Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
— Cormac McCarthy
If something did not love you you would not be here.
— Cormac McCarthy