Cormac McCarthy Quotes About Horses

Quotes about: Horses

• Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Men, Wind

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Cities of the Plain”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

• What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. All his reverence and all his fondness and all the leanings of his life were for the ardenhearted and they would always be so and never be otherwise. (All the Pretty Horses)

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Men, Blood

• He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to holo

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, War, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

• He rose and turned toward the lights of town. The tidepools bright as smelterpots among the dark rocks where the phosphorescent seacrabs clambered back. Passing through the salt grass he looked back. The horse had not moved. A ship's light winked in the swells. The colt stood against the horse with its head down and the horse was watching, out there past men's knowing, where the stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

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  Horse, Stars, Dark

• The night is quiet. Like a camp before battle. The city beset by a thing unknown and will it come from forest or sea? The murengers have walled the pale, the gates are shut, but lo the thing's inside and can you guess his shape? Where he's kept or what's the counter of his face? Is he a weaver, bloody shuttle shot through a time warp, a carder of souls from the world's nap? Or a hunter with hounds or do bone horses draw his dead cart through the streets and does he call his trade to each? Dear friend he is not to be dwelt upon for it is by just such wise that he's invited in

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  Wise, Horse, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “Suttree”, p.4, Pan Macmillan

• A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Jobs, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

• Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Men, Illusion

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

• They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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