Cormac McCarthy Quotes

There is no suspense in inevitability.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.

I believe in destiny...what's going to be is going to be. If I'm going to win, I'm going to win...I don't give a damn what the other guy shoots. I'm going to win if it's my turn.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Fate will find a way.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

No one can defy fate.

I am a great respector of fate.