Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.
– Cormac McCarthy
Related Quotes:
- There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot. – Cormac McCarthy
- We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained. – Clifford Cohen
- His head was pounding and his vision skewed in some way and he was vaguely amazed at being alive and not sure that it was worth it. – Cormac McCarthy
- Action cannot destroy ignorance, for it is not in conflict with ignorance. Knowledge alone destroys ignorance, as light destroys dense darkness. – Shankara
- And her work! Oh, the thought of being deprived of that! With only his love in return, his love and his amiable domestic tyranny! – Florence Converse
- whoever approaches his goal dances – Cormac McCarthy
- His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep. – Cormac McCarthy
- Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world. – Cormac McCarthy
- He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised. – Cormac McCarthy
- This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the days upon. – Cormac McCarthy
- The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Let your greatest possession be the ability to let go of any possession, joyfully. – Bryant McGill
- Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness. – Debasish Mridha
- Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars. – Charlotte Lamb
- In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. – Cormac McCarthy
- War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. – Cormac McCarthy
- If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay. – Cormac McCarthy
- What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. – Cormac McCarthy
- And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. – Cormac McCarthy
- Here beyond men’s judgments all covenants were brittle. – Cormac McCarthy
- …the space which [books] occupied was itself an expectation. – Cormac McCarthy
- I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am. – Cormac McCarthy
- At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned – Cormac McCarthy
- A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what. – Cormac McCarthy
- What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not. – Cormac McCarthy
- Dope.They sell that shit to schoolkids.It’s worse than that.How’s that?Schoolkids buy it. – Cormac McCarthy
- By the time I was sixteen I had read many books and I had become a freethinker. – Cormac McCarthy
- They passed, leaving a trail of foxfire shuffled up out of the wet leaves like stars plowed in a ship’s wake. – Cormac McCarthy
- Don’t take in no strangers while I’m gone.She sighed deeply. They ain’t a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said. – Cormac McCarthy
- Life is a memory, then it is nothing. All law is writ in a seed. – 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
- If you pursue this road that you’ve embarked upon, you will eventually come to moral decisions that will take you completely by surprise – Cormac McCarthy
- Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. – Cormac McCarthy
- Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we’re not dying.Okay. – Cormac McCarthy
- You can stay here with your papa and die or you can go with me…. You’ll be all right. – Cormac McCarthy
- By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp. – 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
- 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
- Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore. – 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