Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

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  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

• No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

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  Pain, Grief, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

• Pain for the old was no longer a surprise.

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  Pain, Surprise

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.176, Pan Macmillan

• He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

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  Pain, Soul, Might

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.263, Pan Macmillan

• Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

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  Pain, Pale, Loses

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.301, Pan Macmillan

• Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Writing, Nuts

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