Cormac McCarthy

"Dreams die when you stop believing in them."

"Humor is the only honest response to absurdity."

"Beauty fades, but the effect of beauty lingers forever."

"Death gives life meaning. Without it, nothing matters."

"Perseverance is not strength. It's the refusal to accept defeat."

"Gratitude is the secret to contentment."

"Creativity requires chaos. Order kills the imagination."

"Justice is a human concept. Nature knows nothing of it."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Kindness costs nothing but is worth everything."

"Strength is the ability to bear what cannot be changed."

"Fear is what separates the living from the dead."

"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Money is just a way of keeping score in a game that has no rules."

"Health is the first requirement of any life. Protect it above all else."

"Adventure is the only antidote to despair."

"Technology will never replace the human touch."

"History repeats itself because people never learn from it."

"Philosophy is the art of being confused at a higher level."

"Literature is the greatest invention because it captures the human soul."

"In the end we are all dead men. The question is how we spend the time between now and then."

"You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from."

"People want to know if the world will end in fire or ice. The answer is that it ends in indifference."

"He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke words."

"The world has no lack of traitors. That much is certain."

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

"Anything that does not take years of your life and drive you to madness is not worth doing."

"The past is always a reconstruction. It cannot be otherwise."

"Love is illusory. What binds us is something altogether darker and more binding."

"You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow."