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Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him.
- Cormac McCarthy
The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.
- Cormac McCarthy
All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
- Cormac McCarthy
He keeps from off the king's road for fear of citizenry.
- Cormac McCarthy
People dont feel safe no more, he said. We're like the Comanches was two hundred years ago. We dont know what's goin to show up here come daylight. We dont even know what color they'll be.
- Cormac McCarthy
The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.
- Cormac McCarthy
Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him
- Cormac McCarthy
When smart people do dumb things it's usually due to one of two things. The two things are greed and fear. They want something they're not supposed to have or they've done something they weren't supposed to do. In either case they've usually fasten on to a set of beliefs that are supportive of their state of mind but at odds with reality. It has become more important for them to believe that to know.
- Cormac McCarthy
Human desire is the criterion of all truth and all good. Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling. There is really nothing to fear. The motive of fear in religion is base...
- DH Lawrence
But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side. Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.
- DH Lawrence
So they won't be able to blow out my wanting you, nor the little glow there is between you and me. We'll be together next year. And though I'm frightened, I believe in your being with me.
- DH Lawrence
And Clifford the same. All that talk! All that writing! All that wild struggling to push himself forwards! It was just insanity. And it was getting worse, really maniacal. Connie felt washed-out with fear. But at least, Clifford was shifting his grip from her on to Mrs Bolton. He did not know it. Like many insane people, his insanity might be measured by the things he was not aware of, the great desert tracts in his consciousness.
- DH Lawrence