"All the Pretty Horses" Quotes

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

If one of the horses is spooked then they are all spooked and they're all spooked all the time.

The way it works with me is that I do what I have to do.

Every man must be what he is and not what other people want him to be.

That's what it is to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you feel that you will live forever. You know that you will never have to come to the end of your story and that you will never have to reconcile yourself to facing the consequences of your actions. You could be a fool forever and never know it.

I was carried on through the empty world that I saw only as I was carried through it.

A good man is not without fear. He has the good sense to fear what should be feared. And for the rest, he's unafraid.

There's a strange peace in storms, he said, when you're empty of all the feelings you've had.

You aint got a care in the world because you dont believe it. You say you believe it but you dont. If you did you'd have a care. And that's the way it is with you. Same way with me. Same way with any man.