“Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.”
More from Cormac McCarthy on Life
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
“He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.”
“Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before.”
“People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”
“you fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.”
“Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.”
“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”
“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.”
“In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Paulo Coelho
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”