From Cormac McCarthy: “I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.”
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Quote of the day 03/19/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “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”
Quote of the day 03/18/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately beContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/18/24”
Quote of the day 03/17/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening andContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/17/24”
Quote of the day 03/16/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “They were watching, out there past men’s knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.”
Quote of the day 03/15/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.”
Quote of the day 03/14/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Every step you take is forever. You can’t make it go away. None of it. You understand what I’m sayin?”
Quote of the day 03/12/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “The point is there ain’t no point.”
Quote of the day 03/10/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “The more clearly you become conscious of the frailty, vanity, and dream-like quality of all things, the more clearly will you also become conscious of the eternity of your own inner being; because it is only in contrast to this that the aforesaid quality of things becomes evident, just as you perceivedContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/10/24”
Quote of the day 03/09/24
From Cormac McCarthy: “Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”