Blood Meridian

"The world's a hard place, kid. It don't care nothing for your feelings"

"You think that because you were born you have a right to this place in the world. You're mistaken. This world is cattle."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"That which exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"What is beautiful is good and what is good is true."

"There is no such thing as a rational man."

"Everything takes its character from necessity."

"Whatever moved without passion was dead."

"Men are born for careers as cows are born to be eaten."

"Books and harlots offer the same stirrings of the blood."

"All things are necessary in their place."

"You've no idea how strange it seems to me to think of the world going on without me in it."

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"War is god."

"There is no such thing as knowledge which is not power."

"All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain."

"You ride with the men of blood."

"That man who sets himself in opposition to the nature of things is crushed."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Wars are made by young men."

"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."

"No one can save you but yourself"

"The will to power is the essence of all things"

"The universe is a closed thing and wholly determinate"

"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent"

"Whatever God is, he is not men."

"I never let him out of my sight."

"The world cannot be known. It can only be encountered."

"War is god."

"The secrets of this land are not for the living."