"Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West" Quotes
"Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West" by Cormac McCarthy is a brutal and poetic exploration of violence, manifest destiny, and the human condition set against the backdrop of the American-Mexican borderlands in the mid-19th century.
fiction | 351 pages | Published in 1985
Quotes
War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.
Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.
Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible.
Your heart’s desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.
The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning.
The freedom of birds is an insult to me.
It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures.
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now?
The world to come must be composed of what is past.
