Cormac McCarthy Quotes

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings.

We are all puppets in the hands of fate and seldom see the strings.

All this strategy is, in truth, an attempt to impose individual will upon a recalcitrant world …. Strategy is often simply a charade—erzatz order imposed on a stubbornly disordered world.

The forces that precipitate the vicious cycle of conflict on this planet do not pledge allegiance to either the left or the right or the center. They take advantage of everyone.

On a street of right and wrong in every inch of sadness, rocks and tanks go hand in hand with madness.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

Over the field rang his clear voice calling: ‘Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world’s ending!

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

The lion and the lamb may, possibly, sumtime lay down in this world together for a fu minnits, but when the lion kums tew git up, the lamb will be missing.

Wolves? I should have known. Of course you have wolves. Doesn’t everybody?” She snapped her fingers. “The gun, Lucian. Hand it over. I’ve decided I have to shoot you after all. It’s the only way to preserve my sanity.

There is no difference between acute schizophrenia and a world at war.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

When the ghost comes round at midnight Well you both can have some fun He can drive you mad, he can make you sad He can keep you from the sun When they take him down, he'll be both safe and sound And the hand does fit the glove And no matter what they tell you, There's good and evil in everyone.

You can blow the world to pieces, but you can't blow the world to peace.

The hand that controls the supper dish rules the world!

We don't have a clue what's really going down, we just kid ourselves that we're in control of our lives while a paper's thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and move us around from room to room, and put us away at night when they're tired, or bored.

She’s special. We used to unleash her on ancient battlefields just to see soldiers chop their best friends into pieces before falling on their own swords. (Deimos)

The puppet thinks: It's not so much what they make me do as their hands inside me.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.

Nobody's cut out for this town," Shane said. "Nobody sane anyway." "Says the kid who came back." "Yeah, kind of proves my point.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

The world is this incredibly blurry, crazy dream that I'm just sort of stumbling through.

Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you." She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?" "It's a much more personal death.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.