Cormac McCarthy Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

2. I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all. All the Pretty Horses

3. I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it. No Country for Old Men

4. I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. No Country for Old Men

5. You call forth the world which God has formed and that world only. Nor is this life of yours by which you set such store your doing, however you may choose to tell it. Its shape was forced in the void at the onset and all talk of what might otherwise have been is senseless for there is no otherwise. Of what could it be made? Where be hid? Or how make its appearance? The probability fo the actual is absolute. That we have no power to guess it out beforehand makes it no less certain. That we may imagine alternate histories means nothing at all. Cities of the Plain

6. You have my whole heart. You always did. The Road

7. You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you. No Country for Old Men

8. You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else. No Country for Old Men

9. And you will never know the depth of your heart until you are presented with the opportunity for revenge. Only then will you know what you are capable of. The Counselor: A Screenplay

10. Carry the fire. The Road

11. Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. The Road

12. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. All the Pretty Horses

13. The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all. The Road

14. The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.

15. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West