Cormac McCarthy Gone Quotations

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He'll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to. He'll say: where did everybody go? And that's how it will be. What's wrong with that?

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.

She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.

The hardest lesson in the world: Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.