Cormac McCarthy Quotes

I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it. Now it is necessary for me, as it is necessary for all men, to die in this same loneliness, and I know that there is no help for it.

It's pointless to cry. One is born and dies alone.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

I'd like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I'd like to know what happens.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

We die alone, but we live among men.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

I could picture life—school and everything else—continuing on without me. But I could not picture my funeral. Not at all. Mostly because I couldn’t imagine who would attend or what they would say.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

From birth to death we are alone.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.