Cormac McCarthy

Novelist American 1933 – 2023

American novelist known for The Road.

358 quotes

"You don't have to be together every moment, but you have to mean it every time you are."
Love
"Dark and deep and strangely real."
Truth
"The world is everything that is the case."
Philosophy
"The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible."
Wisdom
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed."
Life
"You can't make old friends."
Friendship
"The road is always calling."
Adventure
"A man's life is his own."
Freedom
"In the end we are all just seeking peace."
Peace
"The man who believes he can and the man who believes he can't are both usually right."
Motivation
"Fear and pain the only currency."
Fear
"He knew only that the child was his warrant."
Family
"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."
Beauty
"The world as it exists is without scheme or fix."
Nature
"Books are made from other books."
Literature
"Death is the only thing left to discover."
Death
"You never get over it, but you get used to it."
Time
"Keep a little fire burning."
Hope
"The only thing worth stealing is a kiss."
Love
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Power
"In the morning light nothing is hidden."
Truth
"He would be aware of the time passing of the time passing and of his own passing in the world."
Time
"Nature is not your friend."
Nature
"No God comes."
Faith
"The dark came on, and with it, a cold wind."
Change
"Money is what God lets you keep."
Money
"To study the phenomenon of disease without the phenomenon of life."
Science
"The old times are gone and they aint comin back."
History
"Wars are won by those who care less."
War
"You must be willing to lose your life for it."
Perseverance