If fate is the law, then is fate also subject to that law? At some point we cannot escape naming responsibility. It's in our nature. Sometimes I think we are all like that myopic coiner at his press, taking the blind slugs one by one from the tray, all of us bent so jealously at our work, determined that not even chaos be outside of our own making.
("All the Pretty Horses")
More Quotes from Cormac McCarthy:
There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.Cormac McCarthy
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence.
Cormac McCarthy
I felt early on I wasn't going to be a respectable citizen.
Cormac McCarthy
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
Cormac McCarthy
Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?
Cormac McCarthy
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Cormac McCarthy
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Duty Quotes, Fate & Destiny Quotes, Law & Regulation Quotes, Nature Quotes, Work & Career QuotesBased on Keywords: coiner, jealously, myopic, slugs, tray
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
American Idol, I love. I think it's a passing fancy but not passing so soon.
Diane Sawyer
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
Don McLean