Cormac McCarthy

"Language is the only thing that separates us from the animals. And animals don't lie."

"The road once taken cannot be retraced. You cannot step in the same river twice."

"A man's gifts make no allowance for his life."

"In every heart there is some sadness and some violence. No exception."

"The truth about the world is that it has no truth. Only perspectives."

"You measure yourself by the people around you. Choose them wisely."

"Dreams are the only escape from the harsh realities we must endure."

"Courage is not the absence of fear. It is action in the face of fear."

"The world you inhabit is constructed moment by moment in your own mind."

"Art is the only honest thing there is. Everything else is compromise."

"Money is a kind of poetry. The exchange of resources for meaning."

"Every day is a new world if you allow it to be."

"A man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

"The only thing worth preserving is the truth, however ugly."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a sword in the hands of a fool."

"We are all born into some era. None of us chooses our time."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the resolution of conflict."

"The beauty of the world lies in its indifference to our suffering."

"Death is not the worst thing. Meaninglessness is."

"What separates the living from the dead is the stories they tell."

"Justice is an abstraction. Only power is real."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong, not the weak."

"Kindness in a harsh world is its own form of rebellion."

"Your strength is measured by what you can endure, not what you can overcome."

"Fear is the engine that drives all human behavior."

"Power without conscience is just tyranny wearing different clothes."

"Health is not the absence of illness. It is the presence of vitality."

"Adventure is what happens when you abandon your plans."

"Technology is just another form of human vanity."

"The best philosophy is to accept what you cannot change."