Cormac McCarthy People Quotations

People apparently only read mystery stories of any length. With mysteries, the longer the better, and people will read any damn thing. But the indulgent, 800-page books that were written a hundred years ago are just not going to be written anymore, and people need to get used to that.

We were considered rich because all the people around us were living in one- or two-room shacks.

She smiled. I think it's just the snow. I think it makes people stop and think. Bell nodded. I hope it comes a blizzard then.

No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they? No. It's never like what you expected. Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?

If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them?

People don't pay attention. And then one day there's an accounting. And after that, nothing is the same.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

Dying ain't in people's plans, is it?

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People speak about what is in store. But there is nothing in store. The day is made of what has come before. The world itself must be surprised at the shape of that which appears. Perhaps even God.

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

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.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That's right. Others come in to govern for them.

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

I yearn for the darkness. I pray for death. Real death. If I thought that in death I would meet the people I've known in life I don't know what I'd do. That would be the ultimate horror. The ultimate despair. If I had to meet my mother again and start all of that all over, only this time without the prospect of death to look forward to? Well. That would be the final nightmare. Kafka on wheels.