Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

What are we after all our dreams, after all our memories?

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time thinking about what I consider the deepest questions.

I have a rendezvous with life.

There were a lot of little triggers that made me realize that life is now; life is happening while we're preoccupied with stupidities. Of course, growing. Of course, becoming a mother and understanding life from another perspective.

The meaning of life is life.

Life itself is a quotation.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.

The fact we exist merely means we exist. That's all it means.

'Do I have a purpose.' Right. And of course you do. Otherwise, you wouldn't be on Earth. I really strongly believe that if we're here, it's for a reason.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Every person is a book, each year a chapter.

Life is a great experience. Dignity is a treasure.

Life is a four-letter word.

Everybody has to solve that "meaning of life" and purpose question for themselves. Everybody does it their own way. I think you have to be thoughtful about the way that you're doing it. So I describe it as purpose. If you can think about leading a purposeful life - not just an accumulation but you actually make the world a better place - then I think in the grand scheme of the universe, that that explains our existence. If not, we're just passing through. We're grains of sand and we're blowing in the breeze.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

What about life, Ninotchka? Do Russians never think about life, of the moment in which we are living? It's the only moment we ever really have.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.