Blood Meridian

Book · 4 characters · 412 quotes · 1985

Quotes from Blood Meridian

J
"He is an unusual fellow"
Judge Holden
C
"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"
Cormac McCarthy Wisdom
J
"What has occurred once will occur again"
Judge Holden History
J
"The world exists in a state of war"
Judge Holden War
J
"The universe is a rather strange place"
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"He sat on his horse and studied the country before him"
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"There is no such thing as life. There is only degrees of death"
Judge Holden Death
J
"You think that you are not witnessing a revelation"
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"The judge spoke of the nature of war and of men's enterprises in war"
Judge Holden War
J
"All of this earth will die and all that is in it."
Judge Holden Death
J
"Nature is not a garden but a wilderness."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden Power
J
"To order knowledge by categories is to falsify it."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"War endures. By it all other trades are measured."
Judge Holden War
J
"There is no such thing as fate."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"Whatever exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"You think you're an exception. You're not."
Judge Holden Truth
J
"In the nature of things there is no blemish but the world."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"War is god."
Judge Holden War
J
"There is no such thing as a true history."
Judge Holden History
J
"Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden
J
"The world is everything that is the case. The great machine of the universe."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"Everything that exists without my knowledge exists without my consent."
Judge Holden Power
J
"The night does not come from the darkness. The darkness comes from the night."
Judge Holden Wisdom
J
"The universe is a system of which the greatest system of all is God, and the smallest system of all is the atom, and all systems are God."
Judge Holden Philosophy
J
"There is no such thing as life without bloodshed."
Judge Holden Life
C
"In the end we will all of us be dead and there's an end to it."
Cormac McCarthy Death
J
"War crimes and crimes against humanity."
Judge Holden War
J
"What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters."
Judge Holden Wisdom