Cormac McCarthy Quotes

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

I know exactly what it's like to not have a penny. I know exactly what it's like trying to get a job. I know exactly what it's like having bloody one tin of Ambrosia left in the cupboard. But I know I can survive.

I know what poverty is.

My father made about $25 a week. We always lived just on the edge.

In Manipur, mostly the top player's family background is very poor. I also come from a poor family, so we have to do more hard work to get money and a better life.

There were times when I couldn't even buy a loaf of bread.

Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

We had a food store at the theatre and I used to pinch food. I pinched some trousers and shirts to keep me going but they would wear out. I was virtually on the breadline.

It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

The people who pay the biggest price are those who are struggling.

When you’ve been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you’re even happy, because at least you’ve got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

My children didn't have my advantages; I was born into abject poverty.

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

The greatest hardship of poverty is that it tends to make men ridiculous.