Cormac McCarthy Quotes

I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn't know what I was supposed to say to her. My life is in that bed. Please let me stay.

Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

Inside my mother's death / I lay and could not breathe.

O my son Absalom,' Bean said softly, knowing for the first time the kind of anguish that could tear such words from a man’s mouth. 'my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for thee, O Absalom, my son. My sons!

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

I was slapped down to the ground when my son Wade died in 1996, in April of 1996.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

The fact that I lost my son permeates my being.

My father died in my arms. That's tumult. That's everything exploding.

I don't think you could get anything worse than losing a child. I think if my child died, I would prefer it if I were dead.

When Michael died I was tipped over the edge. I was beyond grief.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I was scared when I lost my mother, my father, my brother, my sister.

They'll take everything, even your tears.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

When my brother called to inform me, on the morning of May 22, 2003, that our mother Caroline Oates had died suddenly of a stroke, it was a shock from which, in a way, I have yet to recover.

The murder of Sean Brown hurt my soul.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

I'm in a great rage now, as I understand how many lives we have lost.

It was the saddest day of my life.

A piece of each of us died.

The loss of my brother was a huge moment, a life-changer for me.

I know what it's like to lose.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.