Blood Meridian

Book · 4 characters · 412 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Blood Meridian

K
"He rode on. He did not look back."
Kid Perseverance
J
"To see the thing itself and not the mere image of the thing."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"The machinery of the world is driven by things we do not understand."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"War endures. It is the condition of man."
Judge Holden War
J
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden Power
J
"The world is everything that is the case and beyond that there is nothing."
Judge Holden Truth
J
"All events are foreknown yet they occur as a surprise to him who lives them."
Judge Holden Time
J
"If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now."
Judge Holden Faith
J
"War is god. I know that. I have always known it."
Judge Holden War
J
"The world cannot be said to have order and to have possibility at the same time."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"That which is withheld is not concealed but rather has no existence whatsoever."
Judge Holden Truth
J
"Numbers conspire. All things do."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"There is nothing in nature that cannot be read if one learns how."
Judge Holden Nature
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Judge Holden Knowledge
J
"You think to oppose me but you are not equipped. I move through the world and whatever I wish to know I know."
Judge Holden Power
J
"What God has joined together let no man put asunder said the judge with mockery in his pale eyes."
Judge Holden Power
J
"The judge said that nature was a thing that had to be conquered and catalogued."
Judge Holden Knowledge
J
"He said that men were nothing and that all their works would come to nothing."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"He said that war was a thing which could not be known but only endured."
Judge Holden War
J
"A man is what he does not what he says he will do."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"What is it you want said the kid. Nothing said the judge. Everything."
Judge Holden Power
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Judge Holden Knowledge
J
"Beauty exists in proportion and grace and certain relations which admit no exceptions."
Judge Holden Beauty
J
"The things of this world have no order but only accident and chance."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"A man's life is his own. He may do with it as he sees fit."
Judge Holden Freedom
J
"The world is everything that is the case and all else is speculation."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"In the desert you respect the silence or you die."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"You think there is something which you do not know"
Judge Holden Knowledge
J
"The world is everything that is the case"
Judge Holden Philosophy
K
"He sat with his elbows on his knees and studied the fire"
Kid Solitude