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“Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no God and we are his prophets.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When your dreams are of some world that never was or of some world that never will be and you are happy again then you will have given up.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“There is no later. This is later.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“Freeze this frame. Now call down your dark and your cold and be damned.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When we're all gone at last then there'll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“That good luck might be no such thing. There were few nights lying in the dark that he did not envy the dead.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“A creation perfectly evolved to meet its own end.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road

“When we’re all gone at last then there’ll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too. He’ll be out in the road there with nothing to do and nobody to do it to.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road