All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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It’s a life’s work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood, and this is a thing that even God — who knows all that can be known — seems powerless to change.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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I don’t think goodness is something that you learn. If you’re left adrift in the world to learn goodness from it, you would be in trouble.
~ Cormac McCarthy

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