The Passenger Quotes

“A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Mercy is the province of the person alone. There is mass hatred and there is mass grief. Mass vengeance and even mass suicide. But there is no mass forgiveness. There is only you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“If there was a heaven, was it not founded upon the writhing bodies of the damned?”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Real trouble doesnt begin in a society until boredom has become its most general feature”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Am I traveling? No! I'm stuck in the same place, like a person who takes refuge in a cinema where he sits in his seat without moving as the films flicker away-and all the while his worries are lurking just outside the exit.”
― Ulrich Boswitz