Cormac McCarthy Quotes

In a close-knit community like Jasper, every loss feels personal.

The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

Music is a unifying force.

If you learn the language of loss early, I think you seek out others who have experienced the same thing, who speak that same language of loss.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

When he is pierced, I bleed.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

I have as much rage as you have, I have as much pain as you do, I've lived as much hell as you have, and I've kept mine bubbling under for you.

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this woful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments in all their senses and members. Consider above all the eternity of their pains, which above all things makes hell intolerable.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.

In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.

We should all have an opportunity to feel a part of something not just have a part in something.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

I learn to pity woes so like my own.