Famous Cormac McCarthy Quotes

  • The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element. – Cormac McCarthy

    The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.– Cormac McCarthy

  • In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles. – Cormac McCarthy

    In the draws the smoke coming off the ground like mist and the thin black trees burning on the slopes like heathen candles.– Cormac McCarthy

  • He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing. – Cormac McCarthy

    He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.– Cormac McCarthy

  • Where men can’t live gods fare no better. – Cormac McCarthy

    Where men can’t live gods fare no better.– Cormac McCarthy

  • Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore. – Cormac McCarthy

    Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.– Cormac McCarthy

  • you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation. – Cormac McCarthy

    you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.– Cormac McCarthy

  • The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. – Cormac McCarthy

    The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.– Cormac McCarthy

  • They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place. – Cormac McCarthy

    They camped that night on the foreplain at the foot of a talus slope and the murder that had been reckoned upon took place.– Cormac McCarthy

  • To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing. – Cormac McCarthy

    To make the world. To make it again and again. To make it in the very maelstrom of its undoing.– 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. – 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.– Cormac McCarthy