Cormac McCarthy Quotes

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Aristotle said time is a measure of change, and this movie is about changing in time, through time, while remaining the same person. That's a philosophical paradox and a moral dilemma. But 'Casablanca' says it's possible. You can have both. That's what it means. And that's my wish for you: that you would have both.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Just as I’ve always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I’ve always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.

I ask why your Omnipotent God does not hold a man back when he is about to commit a sin or offence. It is child’s play for God. Why did He not kill war lords? Why did He not remove the fury of war from their minds? In this way God could have saved humanity from great calamity and horror.

There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us.

God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today.

If God created everything, he's got a serious quality control problem.

God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece.

Even in art, there is no light without shadows, and no shadows are cast without some light. Even the shadow of Adolf Hitler is accompanied by some light.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

Still ending, and beginning still.

Approach the universe with Tao, And evil will have no power. Not that evil is not powerful, But its power will not be used to harm others.

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new.

How much can come And much can go, And yet abide the world!

God creates dinosaurs, God kills dinosaurs, God creates man, man kills God, man brings back dinosaurs.

The world is being created and destroyed in this very moment. Whoever you met will reappear, whoever you lost will return. Don’t betray the grace that was bestowed on you. Understand what is going on inside you and you will understand what is going on inside everyone else. Don’t imagine that I came to bring peace. I came with a sword.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.